ABC News reporting the WH is calling an urgent multi-agency meeting Thursday on new Al Qaeda threat

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/Reuters: White House Calls Meeting on Al Qaeda Threat: Report
By REUTERS
Published: July 10, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has called an urgent multi-agency meeting for Thursday to discuss a potential new al Qaeda threat on U.S. soil, ABC News reported on Tuesday.

Top intelligence and law enforcement officials have been told to meet in the White House Situation Room to report on steps to minimize or counter the threat and what steps are being taken to tighten security at government buildings, ABC said.

The meeting would be one of a number convened in light of new intelligence and information learned from the recent failed car bomb attempts in London, ABC reported, citing a senior U.S. administration official.

The unnamed official told ABC the level of concern of a new attack in the United States was now higher than it had been in some time....

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Law enforcement officials said the botched bombings in London provided clues about possible tactics, ABC reported....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-usa-security-threat.html

NOTED: Trouble is, they've worked that "nexus of politics and terror," to use Olbermann's words, so often, we think they're crying wolf even if one day they might not be. Their uselessness endangers us, or might do so at some time.

[Stephanie]

1. yeah it's such an emergency they had to wait until Thursday so they could get the PR's out first

Fuck these lying POS's. Rove is a one-trick pony. Trouble in the Empire? TERRA LERT!

[LiberalHeart]

58. That was my reaction, too, when I heard the report.

Thursday? Urgent? Geez.

[aquart]

2. Think they'll show cartoons? or just more Power Point?

[C_U_L8R]

8. Will snacks be served?

Can't have a good meetin' without snacks

[aquart]

26. "Bite they little heads off, nibble on they tiny feet."

What do predators eat?

[Kool Kitty]

60. "What do predators eat?"

Why, they eat them mousies, obviously. ;)

[CC]

11. Most likely a Power Point.

From what I understand this misadministration has a fetish for them.

[baldguy]

3. Like what Richard Clarke wanted in Feb 2001?

[DeepModem Mom]

10. Yep, exactly! nt

[Bluebear]

4. How convenient. What's the big fucking emergency if they're waiting 'til THURSDAY? nt

[FourScore]

50. And how nice of 'em to inform the world when the meeting

will happen and what is to be discussed. Perhaps they should publish the minutes from the meeting as well. I'd say somebody BIG must be on that phone list.

[MorningGlow]

5. Getting a little too warm in DC these days?

Oooh! Oooh! Look over there! I think I see a terra-ist!

Puh-leeze. :puke:

[2Design]

6. more bs n/t

[goclark]

7. Code Bush = High Alert!

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Of course they are!!

Gotta justify that veto!! Time to pull out the al qaeda card. Fear, fear, fear, terror, terror, terror!!!

Bastards.

[sutz12]

12. And only 6 years too late.

:shrug:

[proud patriot]

23. touche'

:thumbsup:

[yasmina27]

72. Hah! beat me to it :) n/t

[prolesunited]

13. Chertoff told the Chicago Trib

he has a "gut feeling." That's enough for me. :eyes:

[Octafish]

22. CIA and Pentagon SMASHED al Qaeda back in 2001.

The operations weren't limited to Afghanistan.

They stretched throughout the Middle East and around the world and no stone was left unbombed.

What a crazy monkey, a sneering warmonger and all their evil cronies call "al Qaeda" today is something else -- something of convenience.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. Well, well, well it will be Bush and Cheney's fault if there is a terror attack!

they've underfunded homeland security and import inspections.

[buff2]

15. I had a "GUT FEELING" this was going to happen........

I hate those lowlife SOB's. :puke:

[joeunderdog]

16. SSsshhhhhhhh.... Don't. Tell. Al-Queda.

This is a double-secret meeting and we are trying to save the planet here.

Like the Bush Administration, everyone here should act natural and don't call any attention to to this important meeting.

[Oilwellian]

17. The Situation Room?

Will Wolf be there for the emergency meeting scheduled on Thursday? :rofl:

[Bluebear]

18. See relevant poll which was moved to September 11 forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x163408

[David Zephyr]

19. Red, Yellow, Orange! Get the Duct Tape Out!

Bush is going back to his old playbook: Fear.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Sounds like the regular Thursday Rove briefing

Who ordered the pizza with anchovies?

[cui bono]

21. You mean the one that Jerkoff feels in his gut?

I'd like to give him a feeling in his gut.

:grr:

[killbotfactory]

24. So... Bush is in political trouble again?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

25. Trouble is,...they (BushCO regime) are THE PROBLEM and fund "the network".

So, if a terror event happens,...follow the money and it will lead right back to this administration. Of course, following the money is made impossible by this administration's (oops) loss and laundering of billions upon billions upon billions.

[Bluebear]

27. They CAN'T attack us on our soil. They can't follow us home unless we leave Iraq!

:sarcasm:

[Ilsa]

32. Exactly! Chuckle-nuts promised us! We're safe unless...

Dumbya has been wrong about everything!

Uh-oh.

[Kool Kitty]

62. OMG!!!! Oceans no longer protect us!!!!

RUN!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!! Or go shopping, whatever.....

[Ilsa]

28. What is that saying? Oh yeah...

What the fucking fuck fuck do they think they are doing? Do they really think we are going to fall for this bullshit again? Their collective memory is shorter than mine. Wolf! wolf! wolf!

[havocmom]

29. 'ya can't talk to a man with a shotgun in his hand'

Dick must be gettin nervous these days. The 'terrists' are in da bunker, sweatin with Dick.

[LittleClarkie]

30. An urgent meeting two days from now

Uh-huh.

[Theduckno2]

59. How does that old joke go?

I come before you to stand behind you, to tell you something I know nothing about.

There will be an urgent meeting held two days from now.

Attendance is mandatory, so please stay at home if you can be there.

[uppityperson]

31. but but but I thought we were fighting them there...... (wolf wolf!)

[tyedyeto]

33. Terra, terra, terra

And your noted at the bottom of the OP is so very true:

we think they're crying wolf even if one day they might not be. Their uselessness endangers us, or might do so at some time.

What ever did happen to the boy who cried wolf? Because I live in the US, I am, by association, one of those who cried wolf and I don't like it.

[hedgehog]

45. It's not so much what happened to the boy who cried wolf as

what happened to the sheep he was supposed to protect. We don't like to imagine ourselves as sheep, but I doubt it'll be Bush's cronies or anyone from Homeland Security who takes it in the chops when there is a terrorist attack.

[tyedyeto]

46. I doubt it will be a terraist attack

but someone from within this administration who pays for and organizes such an attack. To then be blamed on that elusive terraist.

[jaxx]

34. And Santorum says......

<snip> “In an alarming display of fearmongering, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum has suggested that a series of ‘unfortunate events,’ namely terrorist attacks, will occur within the next year and change American citizen's perception of the war.

“Santorum went on to clearly imply that terror attacks will occur inside America which will alter the body politic and lead to a reversal of the anti-war sentiment now dominating the country.”
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/july2007/070707changeview.htm

When the goin gets tough, dubya brings out the terra.

[orleans]

35. they heard olbermann's show tonight

chertoff said he had a "gut" feeling

keith said he had a gut feeling that (basically) this was bullshit.

[MiniMe]

36. What threat is that? Chertoff's feeling that something is going to happen?

How ridiculous that even got any news time at all

[Kool Kitty]

63. Come on, you know better.

They had to knock Bush or Gonzalez back to being the second lead on the news tonight.

Christ almighty, is this where we are now? Chertoff's "gut feeling" is supposed to be real news, something that they expect us to take seriously?

[Old and In the Way]

37. Government Buildings this time?

Hmmm, I'd bet the #1 Al Qaeda target is the Capitol Bldg. Al Qaeda hates Democrats.

[berni_mccoy]

38. The unnamed official = Karl Rove

[brettdale]

39. How many times do i have to write this

FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR
WATCH OUT, THE BIG BAD MUSLIM MAN IS GOING TO GET YOU.

[illinoisprogressive]

40. here we go. Bush is going for the distraction thing that the media falls for all the time

the people don't. most just shake their heads and laugh. But, the press are such idiots they fall for it over and over and over again.

[Marie26]

41. This is Cheney

I'm sure of it. There's no actual new threat, of course. The article just talks about "potential threats" and "concerns", & "meetings" to give the impression that there's some huge new terror warning. I think Cheney is the source for these ABC News stories. They always contain some hyperventilating headline, followed by vague scary possibilities, all sourced to one "senior Administration official." It's common knowledge that Cheney refuses to be cited by name, and loves to go on about the terrorism threat. I wonder what he's up to.

[johnaries]

42. But, isn't that why we're fighting them "over there"? n/t

[ClassWarrior]

61. Excellent point, and a meme we should all be spreading...

NGU.

[Beelzebud]

43. BE AFRAID

[FourScore]

53. BE VERY AFRAID. Didn't we just position another aircraft carrier off Iran? n/t

[BeHereNow]

56. Bastards... Bush ratings in the toilet, disapproval on bombing Iran, sooo, time for another MIHOP.

They are evil beyond comprehension.

BHN

[FourScore]

57. Not to mention a possible sex scandal, and ALL we know how bad those are...

Why, one could even get impeached over a sex scandal. Lying us into a quagmire war??? Outting covert agents? Illegal wiretapping? Torture? Let's face it, those are all NOTHING compared to a cum-stain on a blue dress.

Yep. Time for a new terror attack...

[ljm2002]

70. I'm with you...

...this worries me. Really. But not for the reasons they want me to be worried. It's them I don't trust.

Not that there are not real threats out there. But I don't trust them to handle those either.

[AndyA]

44. Ah yes, the terra card. The American people are familiar with it.

It's all Bush has at this point. And the pathetic thing is, if we do have another terror attack on our soil, it will only prove that Bush and the Republicans - ONCE AGAIN - have failed to protect us.

FAILED. That's all they know how to do, and they do it well.

[OnyxCollie]

47. How long is Congress on vacation?

Perfect time to stage a terrorist attack, with Congress in their districts. Just the opportunity necessary to pull out Presidential Directive 51.

[MrMickeysMom]

48. Goddamnit, don't these people ever learn? n/t

[Maestro]

49. Polls are low. Cheney denied funds. Repukes caught up in

prostitution scandal. Yep, seems about time for another "emergency."

[Swamp Rat]

51. If there is an attack, I will believe it was done by, help along by, allowed by Bushler.

[Marr]

52. Everyone I know gets pissed at the mention of this kind of thing now.

I mean everyone. I was in a waiting room the other day and some news station was on. They mentioned something about a "threat" and there were audible groans. People are just sick of this transparent bullshit, and no one is fooled by it anymore.

[Telly Savalas]

54. "We're facing an impending threat from the terrorists!!!"

"Well, we could have a meeting about it this afternoon, but my kid has soccer game."

"How about tomorrow?"

"Can't do it. In the morning the contractors are coming by to give an estimate on the new carpet for the Pentagon, so I gotta hang out there until they show up. Then in the afternoon I've got 1:30 PM tee times. I know this security of the free world thing is kind of important, but I haven't hit the links in over a month."

"Will Thursday work?"

"Maybe. Put something in my Outlook calendar, and I'll see if I can find the time."

[DeepModem Mom]

65. That's a good one, TS. nt

[Zucca]

55. THREAT LEVEL?CORRUPTION RATING SYSTEM

Doubting a threat due to it being timed along with bad news for Bushies and repub's is no longer a working model. In case you have not noticed there is nothing but bad news for the corrupt and basically criminal Bush administration. Perhaps we can get a combined threat level/controversy/corruption in the White House rating system. I would like to stay with the color coded theme, perhaps use pink for sexual misconduct, black for financial misdeeds, yellow for invoking "executive privilege without real cause and of course RED for any Duck Cheney hunting incidents! I guess we can stick to the regular colors on the threat level, being that we all know them already from election years past! I think it should be a new gadget to share on the windows vista sidebar which is essentially useless! Feel free to use my ideas any developer out there!

[Tinksrival]

64. Bush shit now flows through ABC

Guess Rove figured out no one outside their shrinking base believes FOX.

[Drum]

66. And watch for gas prices to keep climbing...

x(

[caligirl]

67. CNN reported this was a guy saying he had only a gut instinct ,a hunch

that is according to my son's who both cracked up upon hearing the guy from homeland security.

Its hunch, but * at 66% disapproval means * will have a hissy fit on Thursday that will be so loud and so wrenching all of DC will feel it. This is what happens when a privileged drunk thinks he can be pResident.

[caligirl]

68. Calling all young swarthy looking mid eastern doctors in America! Uncle Bush wants you.

In yet another blow to american health care services, Bush and Cheney use another opportunity to improve health care in Gitmo.

[Ghost in the Machine]

69. Chertoff's 'gut feeling' was just a fart. He was confused because he usually only

gets those feelings in his brain....

Go rip one off, Mikey, you'll feel better....

[kineneb]

71. "Georgie and the Wolf"

cue Peter Ustinov for the narration...

Cry "wolf" little Georgie, and while your at it, tell Dickie to take off the stupid Darth Vader suit!

[mod mom]

73. So is it chertoff's gut or cheney's mind?

[yasmina27]

74. Bbbbbbbut....

...I thought we were fighting them over there so we wouldn't have to fight them over here? Don't tell me they lied to us? They wouldn't do that!

Honestly, this time I am a bit apprehensive, b/c last time * was in the toilet we WERE attacked. I believe they would allow an attack to happen again just to get the sheeples' minds off all the other crap he has f'ed up.

Fuck 'em!