Newspaper under fire for refusing to assist FBI terror alert

[kpete]

Seattle security alert highlights post 9/11 balancing act
Published: Friday August 24, 2007


The release of a controversial FBI security alert has highlighted the post-9/11 balancing act law enforcement agencies must perform as they attempt to prevent a new terror strike in the United States, analysts say.

The alert issued by FBI agents in Seattle on Monday called for the public's help in identifying photographs of two Middle Eastern-looking men who had been reported travelling on ferries exhibiting "unusual behavior."

While the FBI release stressed the men's behavior may have been "innocuous," critics have said the alert smacked of racial profiling.

The Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper declined to publish the photos, citing civil liberties and privacy concerns.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Seattle_security_alert_highlights_p_08242007.html

[annabanana]

1. see: "The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf"".

This has always been the most dangerous aspect of the "terra all the time" political tactics of this administration. These persons of interest were actually engaged in some questionable behavior (photgraphing the locks on secured ferry doors, arriving and leaving as if they were strangers who just happened to be on the same ferry. . make that several ferries, etc.)

With the government completely without credibility, how can we protect ourselves?

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Kudos to the Seattle P-I! n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. More like a scare tactic than terror alert

What will these fucks do when there is a REAL terror threat?

[BlooInBloo]

4. Dude - Seattle papers have been the SCHIZNIT for awhile - rock on!