Has anybody kept a time line comparing terror threats to bad news for Bush

Just curious. It would be good to see if the terror alerts coincide with bad Bush news every single time they've been issued. Anybody?

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2145634

Outstanding idea!

Hopefully some talented DU-er can du this and we can pass it around.

...you could correlate it with fluctuations in the stock market, or TV viewing trends, or the life cycle of Pacific tree frog...

dammit

& has had for a long time.

Nostamj did a graph of exactly this type a couple of months back.

I could swear I remember seeing it. I'll try to remember to PM him and ask him to re-post (if it was his)

I don't know if I've even gotten them all:

Terror Alerts:
September 10, 2002
February 7, 2003
March 17, 2003
May 20, 2003
July 22, 2003
December 21, 2003
August 1, 2004

On edit, here are some interesting events before the terror warning escalations, some understandable, others questionable: Sept. 2002--9-11 anniversary; Feb. 2003-pre-war/peace march; March 2003-war; July 2003-'Faulty pre-war intelligence story breaks around the 10th and escalates for the next 2 weeks'; December 18, 2003-9-11 commission chair says 'attacks could've been prevented'; July 29, 2004-Kerry's speech and the end of the Dem convention, poll boost expected for Kerry.

http://juliusblog.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_juliusblog_archive.html

I hope it helps.

I just bookmarked this. What I'm finding is that the Bush administration does not know what it is doing regarding terror alerts (among other things). They are either very predictable (one on the 9-11 anniversary, which I'll grant them, and before the Iraq war), or very convenient (right after Kerry's knock-'em-dead speech, or after some big story harmful to this administration starts to escalate into daily headlines, etc.).

I counted twelve alerts, did I miss any? Or did I over count?

This is a keeper.

I mean, it became an overnight cliché to say that Howard Dean was way off base when he suggested that the corrupt Bush administration plays terror alerts like a trump card. But nobody bothered to see if there was any correlation between the Bush administration having a bad week and a jump in the terror alert level.

Seems like that would be a basic bit of data that in and of itself would destroy Dean's surmise. I wonder why all the chattering heads are saying that Dean's full of it without producing such a graph themselves. Unless, of course, Howard hit the nail squarely on the head?

August 1 2004
-White House Projects Highest Deficit Ever
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040731/D845VQ081.html
-Two days after the end of the Democratic convention

December 21 2003
- 12-17 9-11 Chair: Attack was preventable
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/17/eveningnews/main589137.shtml
- 12-12 Halliburton: $61M overcharge
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/12/politics/main588216.shtml
- 12-20 AFP: Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00184.htm

May 20 2003
- 05-19You let al-Qaida off hook, Bush told
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,958759,00.html
- 05-20 Saving Private Lynch Take 2
http://www.alternet.org/story/15958

March17 2003
- 03-17 saddam-must-leave-within-48-hours speech.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030317-7.html
- 03-16 Bush: tomorrow is decision day for UN
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,915442,00.html

February 7 2003
- 02-05 Powell leaves the jury(UN) unconvinced
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,889700,00.html

September 10 2002
- 09-09 Polls Show Decline in Support for Bush as Fears Mount in America
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0909-01.htm
- 09-07 Revealed: The Taliban Minister, the US Envoy and the Warning of September 11 That Was Ignored
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0907-08.htm
- 09-04 Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml

Check out gas prices just prior to and immediately after Jim Jeffords switching to Independent. As soon as the Pugs lost power, gas prices fell because the gas company scalpers no longer had their sugar daddys.

I can't find all the data anymore, but was astounded at the time.