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bush equals idiot Donating Member (757 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-24-04 01:55 AM
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I'm so sorry Junior.......No election alQuida plots planned.
Oh what, oh what are you going to do now? And you were so counting on it.


NEW YORK TIMES OCT 24

....But there are also those, especially abroad, who question the information and analyses relied on by Mr. Ridge and other senior Bush administration officials in their repeated public warnings of an election-year terror threat.

"I've seen some analytical pieces from the bureau and the agency," said one senior American counterintelligence official, referring to election threat reports by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency. "On a scale of one to a hundred, I'd give it about a two."

But three top national security officials said that the intelligence seemed persuasive, and was backed up by specific and credible sources providing a reasonable basis for warnings. Those sources, they said, included informants with an inside knowledge of Al Qaeda, captured Qaeda operatives, intercepted communications and material taken from computer hard drives and discs.

In May, July and August, law enforcement and homeland security officials made high-profile announcements that traced a trajectory of rising alarm about a possible attack timed to the election season. But an intense international search for more clues has left investigators empty-handed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/politics/24threat.html Link problem
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