Bush: NYC Acted Alone in Unveiling Threat (It's the local's fault!)

[gatorboy]

Blaming the State and Locals: Part Duex

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051007/ap_on_go_pr_wh/nyc_subway_bush

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Friday that New York City officials exercised their own prerogative in publicizing a subway terror threat, declining to second-guess that decision or suggest they had overreacted.


"Our job is to gather intelligence and pass it on to local authorities. And they make the judgments necessary to respond," Bush told reporters. Administration security officials had said on Thursday the threat to New York was of "doubtful credibility," a phrase repeated earlier Friday by Bush's spokesman.

[etherealtruth]

1. Its always the local's fault ...

... if it goes wrong or is not well received.

Remember the chimp has thwarted a "brazillion" other terra plots :sarcasm:

[gatorboy]

5. Heh!

That joke nevr gets old! :P

[shoelace414]

2. how is hte Mayor of New york supposed to decide

how crediable a threat is, are they going to claim he has the same intelligence that the white house has now?

[tk2kewl]

3. Probably true... Bloomberg may be taking a page from *'s script.

The mayor was taking a lot of heat for not attending a debate in Harlem.

[quiet.american]

4. Another day, another "terra" alert

And when something really does happen, we will get the old "Nobody could have forseen this happening / failure of imagination" line.