The new guy in the WH press corps.

I like the cut of this guys jib. His question today--remmeber the fake TERRA! alert in NY? BTW this guy was not amused with Scotty's into. This is the site of BTC news, check their links page, he seems like the UnGannon. http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/category/news/


Q I'm Eric Brewer with BTC News.

MR. McCLELLAN: Welcome. Just so everybody knows.

Q Thanks.

MR. McCLELLAN: Everybody knows who Les is, but some of the other people in the room sometimes no one knows.

Q Thank you, Scott, very much.

MR. McCLELLAN: Go ahead.

Q It's been reported that last week's New York City terrorism threat was a hoax, and it's also been reported that the informant who provided faulty intelligence was an Iraqi who had cooperated successfully with U.S. intelligence in the past. But apparently, this person has now disappeared. Does the President believe that the making of a false terrorist threat is, itself, an act of terrorism, and that the person or persons behind last week's incident should be hunted down and brought to justice?

MR. McCLELLAN: I think it's important that we take any threat seriously. And I think you saw, by the actions of officials in New York, that we have to act out of an abundance of caution and it's better to be safe than sorry. That's why we shared this information with the Mayor and other officials in New York, and we supported the action that they took. That is what the role of elected officials is. Their job is to protect their citizens, first and foremost. And so they made decisions that they felt were in the best interest of the people of New York.

Now, we have -- and I think the Department of Homeland Security talked about this. Since that time we've continued to analyze it and we found nothing to substantiate the threat. But in terms of issues beyond that, I think the military -- our intelligence community talked about how this was information obtained from Iraq. But beyond that, for national security reasons, I'm just not going to get into discussing it any more.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051013-2.html

And here I am, Not surprised.

Every terror alert for the past couple of years has been used to bust the ratings of a repuke running go office. They use the strong on terror meme as a winning issue. Scotty said in other words that Bloomberg was strong on terror and protects New Yorkers as a political ploy.