"Plot Foiled!" Is This (*) Term's "Terror Alert!"

[casual hex]

...or so it would seem.

There appeared to be so, so many terror alerts before the last prezelection. Not so many this term. Why? Alerts are so oh-three. We are now able to "penetrate" their gangs and foil their plots.

Or so we would have you believe...

[Erika]

1. Sure, like the Miami 7

W is seeing a terrorist under every bed. All the better to scare you with, he yells to his sheeple.

[6000eliot]

2. I said this a couple of weeks ago

And "terror plots" have been "foiled" every week since. I bet there's a big one right before the election, just like the "bin Laden" tape.

[Golden Raisin]

3. All these recent "Plots Foiled" brought to you

by the same people who tell you everything in Iraq and Afghanistan is going fantastic & swell --- improvements and progress everyday.

[enough already]

4. These "plots" are so transparent

This is nothing more than typical Rove bullshit.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I watched an interview last night on the News Hour between

Ray Suarez and Ray Kelly, New York City Police Department Commissioner. Two thoughts came to my mind when I heard this portion of the interview:

RAY SUAREZ: When you think you're on to something like this, and you are watching it develop, and you're keeping these people under surveillance, how do you make the decision about when to roll it up, because isn't there almost a temptation to continue to watch it germinate, in the hopes of getting even more suspects and even more information?

RAYMOND KELLY: Well, certainly, this case had to be announced prematurely.

As Mark Mershon of the FBI said today, we certainly didn't want to make this announcement today. Because the information went forward, because it was leaked, it appeared in a major newspaper, and because the Lebanese were also moving forward in their own judicial system, the information was put forward today.

But, clearly, the investigators wanted to keep this investigation going, but, because of the leak, simply could no longer do that.

RAY SUAREZ: Was it a problem for you? Did it hurt anything that was ongoing, to have that appear in The New York Daily News and other papers?

RAYMOND KELLY: Well, certainly.

As I say, we wanted to -- we, being the investigators, the FBI, the joint terrorist task force -- wanted this investigation to go further. We wanted to see if there are other people involved, see what methods and means would have been at least attempted to be obtained to carry out this plot.

It was planned, as was said today, for the fall of this year. So, we wanted to go a little further before actually wrapping it up.


Thought one: This was planned for the fall, but the news got out sooner than they wanted it too. I'm supposing that they wanted to release the information closer to the elections.

Thought two: It hurt the investigation because the information was leaked and the papers printed it. This seems to be another slam against the free press.

Should I don my tin foil hat or does anyone else see it this way?

Full interview here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec06/tunnel_07-07.html


:shrug: