Homeland Security chief warns of 'Bush Failure to Defend US’

Fearing complacency among the American people over possible terror threats, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in Chicago Tuesday that the nation faces a heightened chance of an attack this summer.

"I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased risk," Chertoff told the Chicago Tribune's editorial board in an unusually blunt and frank assessment of America's terror threat level.

"Summertime seems to be appealing to them," he said of al-Qaeda. "We do worry that they are rebuilding their activities."

Still, Chertoff said there are not enough indications of an imminent plot to raise the current threat levels nationwide. And he indicated that his remarks were based on "a gut feeling" formed by past seasonal patterns of terrorist attacks, recent al-Qaeda statements, and intelligence he did not disclose.

There is an assessment "not of a specific threat, but of increased vulnerability," he added.

http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/nation/chi-070710chertoff,0,6464324,print.story

So * can't defend the US either over there or over here??????

Inquiring minds want to know....

I just maxed out all my credit cards buying stuff.

I'll pay 'em off with my winnings.

I should probably go buy a lottery ticket too.

he and the GOP congress have underfunded homeland security and wasted money by creating terrorists in Iraq when the weren't any!

not only the southern, but the northern and both coasts, that the possibility of foreign terror cells already IN the US is probably pretty high.

Not counting the homegrown variety of *ahem*..."patriots"...*cough*...

It'th my fawlt 'cuz I am so compwacent! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! :cry:

Fuck off, Chertoff! I hope you are replaced when we get a REALLY ELECTED president in 2008!

Dems on TV (Biden et al.)!!