Boston police: "No 'credible' group has claimed responsibility for this."

[trof]

Quote from Boston police commissioner on MSNBC.
I have to wonder about the qualifier 'credible'.
Your thoughts?

[TwilightGardener]

1. Why don't they just shut up about who's credible and who's not until after

they investigate? It could be anybody.

[trof]

3. Exactly.

The statement leaves the question "So, has an 'uncredible' group claimed responsibility?"
Way too early in what will probably be a long investigation for that kind of statement.

[onenote]

4. Should they lie and say no one has claimed credit? Or should they refuse to answer?

After an event like this crazies come out of the woodwork to claim responsibility -- people who couldn't plausibly have done it (such as 85 year old in nursing home in Kansas). He's taken responsibility but its not credible.

[TroglodyteScholar]

2. I would imagine they get cranks who take "credit" but give wrong details, or no details at all...

...which would amount to claims of responsibility that are not credible.

[Brickbat]

5. What do you wonder about it?

Cops and newspapers have to deal with a lot of local cranks calling up and claiming something they haven't done. Just sad and troubled people who need attention.

[slackmaster]

6. I think it means the police don't know who did it yet.

[cali]

7. I think it's the most interesting bit of of info that have at this point

evidently there was no "chatter" and no one credible has claimed responsibility.