Boston bombing DIFFERENT from 9/11: Wesley Clark

[elleng]

[immoderate]

1. How many ways are there to say, "We don't know anything?"

--imm

[L.A.dweller]

2. With all the surveillance of communication

by our government, it is very hard to believe that no information was known about this attack.

[elleng]

3. You may be assuming there is more 'surveillance of communication' than there is

AND that whatever there is CAN and HAS been listened to and analyzed.

[L.A.dweller]

5. It's well known and documented that all communication can be picked up

by satellites and other means of monitoring. These talking heads are putting the message out there that law enforcement had no knowledge of this plot.

[elleng]

7. Fine, 'can be picked up by satellites and other means of monitoring,'

and its 'picked up.' What happens to it then? Picked up by what? Whom? What happens to it then, do you think?

[pipoman]

4. Who said "no information is known"?

Lots of information is known, we just don't know it and won't until most of the obvious questions can be answered..it is an investigation..we don't need to know everything, or anything yet..give it a day or 2.

[L.A.dweller]

9. The reporter with the ear piece at 1:40 (Richard)

spouts out something very confusing but it appeared to me that he said that intelligence did not know anything about this.

I found that very hard to believe but then again I may have been overly conspiratorial. All that chatter is confusing, shouldn't even bother with it.

[delrem]

16. surveillance has very little to do with the WoT. nt

[AtheistCrusader]

17. Why? This attack appears to be within the scope of a single asshole.

Who would a single hypothetical bad actor communicate WITH?

There's 310+ million people in this country, they can't monitor everyone at all times. Algorithm's can only gist so much of that down.

[midnight]

22. Like 9-11 there were reports that an exercise was scheduled for that day....

http://www.local15tv.com/mostpopular/story/UM-Coach-Bomb-Sniffing-Dogs-Spotters-on-Roofs/BrirjAzFPUKKN8z6eSDJEA.cspx

[global1]

6. Any Suspicious Short Selling On Any Stocks Today?.......nt

[elleng]

8. Dunno, but lots of selling well before the event, due allegedly to China economic issues.

Dow was down 150? points prior to Boston, and lost another 70? thereafter.

[Quixote1818]

13. Gold had the biggest one day drop since 1983

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-34227_162-57579714/gold-price-takes-biggest-one-day-drop-since-1983/

Not sure how that would even make sense to someone knowing what was going to happen though.

[freshwest]

18. Thought that was due to Asian trading. But yeah, things were said about pre-WTC trades, too.

[AnnieBW]

10. It reminds me more of the Olympic Park bombing in '96

Not saying anything, and I obviously don't know anything more than anyone else. But my first thought was of the Olympic Park bombing in '96.

Plus, remember that we have April 22nd coming up, with all that entails.

[tclambert]

11. What significance does April 22nd have?

Besides Peter Frampton's birthday . . .

Seriously, I searched Wikipedia and came up with nothing.

[AnnieBW]

12. Sorry, April 19th

Getting tired. I meant to post April 19th - anniversary of Waco and OKC.

[Gabby Hayes]

19. April 15 was Tax Day too

[tclambert]

23. Okay, that makes sense.

Also the battle of Lexington and Concord starting the American Civil War.

I thought you might have meant April 20th, Hitler's birthday and the anniversary of Columbine.

[jjewell]

14. I don't understand why they would expect a "warning"...

The "terror" of terrorism is it's unexpected nature.

[elleng]

15. 'Traffic,' volumes of unusual communications

among some characters, might provide warnings, not deliberate threats.

2 posts re: 'tips:'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022681888

[Gabby Hayes]

20. Alex Jones thinks it's all about him

April 15 headline from InfoWars: "Establishment Media Exploits Boston Marathon Terror to Demonize Alex Jones"

[damnedifIknow]

21. Different but with te same result

A tighter security state.