Here We Go Again....Department of Homeland Security Raising Vague Concerns About Possible Terrorism

[tekisui]

With 99 days until the presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security is raising vague concerns about possible terrorist attacks in the US or abroad.

ABC News' Pierre Thomas says DHS officials are "quietly declaring" that the US is entering a "Period of Heightened Alert" because of the upcoming Olympics, the Democratic and Republican conventions, the November elections and the fact that a new president will be taking office in January. Officials tell Thomas the next 11 months will be "a time frame when terrorists may have more incentive to attack."

Accusations of politicization haunted DHS's decision to move the nation's color-coded advisory system from yellow, or elevated risk, to orange, or high risk, just three months before the 2004 election. (A week after President Bush was re-elected, the agency returned the advisory back to yellow.)

This time around, DHS isn't changing colors, Thomas reports, because the "do not want to be accused of trying to inject themselves into the presidential campaign."

Instead, apparently, anonymous officials are simply passing unspecific warnings to a correspondent for a national television network.

Government officials point to the Sept. 11 attacks, which happened just nine months into a new administration, and the Madrid train bombings, which were carried out just three days before Spain's 2004 general election.

They say history suggests a need to take potential threats seriously -- especially in the very near future.

At the moment, though, there are "no specifics" indicating an imminent domestic attack.

link w/video: http://rawstory.com//news/2008/ABC_US_headed_for_heightened_alert_0728.html

[spanone]

1. a repeat of 2004 damned near word for word

[Taverner]

2. We just had another terrorist attack on our soil

This time, Domestic Terrorism in Knoxville

[tjwash]

3. Too late...some right wing psycho terrorist already shot up a church.

Where the fuck was the great anti-terra system?

[CoffeeCat]

4. What is it NOW?

Let me guess...men in SCUBA suits are going to take over financial institutions in
New York and then steal all of our Krispy Kreme donuts?

Only McCain can stop them.

How long before these renegade, SCUBA-donut terrorists endorse Obama?

[intheflow]

5. Sept. 11 happened "just nine months into a new administration..."

Just into a new administration that thought more about lining its own pockets than protecting its citizens. We should have been on red alert from January 20, 2001, but not for the reason DHS claims.

[Union Thug]

6. What a F*cking joke. Honestly, I'm more worried about my job...

and and my family's healthcare needs than some imagined supervillain plotting TEEERRRRROOOORRRRR attacks on the US.

F* Off, Homeland Security. Take your ghost stories elsewhere.

[PCIntern]

7. They're off their game: they spelled it 'wrong':

It should be "Democrat" Convention, coming from these 'folks'. Hell, they do it for everything else: Democrat Senator, Democrat Congress....

[Javaman]

8. Well it is election season after all!! what would we do if we weren't alerted about

exploding cows?

:eyes:

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. We're all gonna die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One day.