White House Divided Over Terror Alert

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&e=2&u=/ap/20040528/ap_on_re_us/terror_threat

WASHINGTON - The FBI (news - web sites) and Justice Department (news - web sites) insist that warning the public about a possibly devastating terror attack in this country was justified by intelligence and may avert a repeat of the Sept. 11 attacks. But some Bush administration officials and lawmakers aren't so sure.

These officials and members of Congress with access to the same intelligence reports said the announcement by Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) and FBI Director Robert Mueller was overblown and caused unnecessary public worry.

Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., who is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the Ashcroft-Mueller news conference on Wednesday mistakenly led some to believe the nation's threat level had been increased.

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Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse reiterated Thursday that his agency has not seen any change in the "steady stream of threat reporting."

"We do not have any new intelligence or specific information about al-Qaida planning an attack," he said.

Remember, "Osama Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."? Ohh, but what, you didn't tell anyone about this, not even NYC when the PDB had potential NYC buildings in the report? Why didn't you tell anyone, Not "actionable Intelligence"?
Bullshit - you murdering MF's.

so he won out.

pattern of implementing reelection strategy instead of national policy.

These bastards have wallowed for YEARS in their juvenile political games and have developed no experience OR expertise to be able to deal with national issues of any scope.

No one in that group can gather all the loose, frayed threads (which used to be the rich tapestry representing our country for god's sake)
and even try to hold things together. It is unraveling as we speak and as they flounder.

We are going to have to gut it out until January 2005 and hope they don't run us (US!) into the ground.