"Feds Mum on Pre-Election Terror Threat"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI, Justice Department and Homeland Security Department officials aren't talking much about the threat of a terrorist attack to disrupt the election in two weeks.

It hasn't gone away; they're just wary of saying anything in public that could prompt Democrats to charge the administration is playing up a terror threat to frighten voters.

It was far different in the months and weeks before the political conventions in July and August. Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge all openly discussed the seriousness of the threat.

By all accounts, many hundreds of law enforcement agents are working around the clock to prevent al-Qaida from pulling off the major attack that intelligence suggests the terror network wants to carry out before the Nov. 2 election.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20041020/D85QSF4O0.html

[eddiebrowns]

1. Seriously??

They're actually worried about elevating the threat level because the Dems will complain? That's new.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Weirdly, though, the press commenting on it gets the word out

about the threat without the GOP looking bad.

I have mixed feelings about that. *sigh*

[Nimrod]

3. Translation

"Holy crap, people are smarter than we thought... Quick guys, huddle up, we need a new strategy!"

[Stephanie]

4. "Pssssst, we're not TALKING about the TERRORIST THREAT"

"We really don't want to TALK about it! So don't QUOTE US on the fact that we are VERY, VERY worried about a TERRORIST THREAT on ELECTION DAY. We would NEVER say anything like that. So DON'T USE OUR NAME WHEN YOU QUOTE US."

[B3Nut]

5. LOL!

That sounds like a line out of a Tom Tomorrow cartoon! ROFL!

Good one!

Todd P

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Exactly! *l*