Nbadan
10-08-2005, 02:55 AM
Terror Alert in NYC: “Driven by Political Concerns?”
October 7th, 2005
Yesterday I posted about the Terror Alert in NYC, and questioned why Mayor Bloomberg held a National Press Conference announcing they had received a “credible threat” yet Homeland Security denied there was a threat.
Today, Tim Grieve on Salon’s War Room notes a conversation with “John Kerry last May” where Kerry “complained to us about the boy-who-cried-wolf nature of the Bush administration’s terror warnings.” Grieve notes that “Kerry was right.”
Maybe all those orange alerts had been justified by intelligence reports, Kerry told us, but maybe they’d been driven by political concerns, too. “I just have no way to measure it,” he said. “Instead of feeling absolutely confident, I have no way of measuring it.”
Grieve says, “It turned out that Kerry was right to be concerned.”
Blogspot (http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=789)
37-39% approval rating, worsening situation in Iraq, House majority leader under indictment, Senate majority leader under investigation, turdblossom possibly under indictment, softening in the economy, continued botched recovery effort in Hurricane afflicted costal regions, Philipine spy in the Vice-President's office for 3 years, 29% approval rating for W in NY, the information on the possible bombings being 2 months old, but none of that matters.
"More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it," Ridge told reporters. "Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country on (alert). ... There were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?' "
-- Former Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge
October 7th, 2005
Yesterday I posted about the Terror Alert in NYC, and questioned why Mayor Bloomberg held a National Press Conference announcing they had received a “credible threat” yet Homeland Security denied there was a threat.
Today, Tim Grieve on Salon’s War Room notes a conversation with “John Kerry last May” where Kerry “complained to us about the boy-who-cried-wolf nature of the Bush administration’s terror warnings.” Grieve notes that “Kerry was right.”
Maybe all those orange alerts had been justified by intelligence reports, Kerry told us, but maybe they’d been driven by political concerns, too. “I just have no way to measure it,” he said. “Instead of feeling absolutely confident, I have no way of measuring it.”
Grieve says, “It turned out that Kerry was right to be concerned.”
Blogspot (http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=789)
37-39% approval rating, worsening situation in Iraq, House majority leader under indictment, Senate majority leader under investigation, turdblossom possibly under indictment, softening in the economy, continued botched recovery effort in Hurricane afflicted costal regions, Philipine spy in the Vice-President's office for 3 years, 29% approval rating for W in NY, the information on the possible bombings being 2 months old, but none of that matters.
"More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it," Ridge told reporters. "Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country on (alert). ... There were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?' "
-- Former Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge