Dean was right: NYT and WP show Terror Alert intel massively out of date

[ECH1969]

From the Washington Post

More than half a dozen government officials interviewed yesterday, who declined to be identified because classified information is involved, said that most, if not all, of the information about the buildings seized by authorities in a raid in Pakistan last week was about three years old, and possibly older.

"There is nothing right now that we're hearing that is new," said one senior law enforcement official who was briefed on the alert. "Why did we go to this level? . . . I still don't know that."

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From the New York Times

Reports That Led to Terror Alert Were Years Old, Officials Say

Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terrorist plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way.


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[MichiganVote]

1. This man is too good and too smart for politics

[bloom]

2. i was glad that the NPR story

on ATC suggested pretty strongly that that was the case.


What a waste of fear and anxiety.

[randr]

3. Kerry's response when asked about Dean's comments regarding this

should have been to tell the press it is their job to find out the answer themselves--he is busy trying to replace b*.

[SEpatriot]

4. Most telling...

"Other officials also stressed that, however long ago al Qaeda operatives compiled the surveillance details, the information was new to U.S. intelligence agencies and was almost unprecedented in the depth of its details. "All this stuff was fresh to us," one official said."

In other words...the administration and their intelligence gathering apparatus is still waaaaaaay behind.

But don't you feel more secure????

[bklyncowgirl]

5. Al Quedas security analysis was better than the FBIs

Oh yeah I feel just soooo safe knowing the Chimp is on the job.

[farmbo]

6. But..but..but Chris Mathews mocked him and all the talking heads agreed

The beltway boys just LOVE terror alert press conferences... particularly at the start of an otherwise quiet news cycle...and nothing should be allowed to stand in their way.

[janx]

7. This came up on NPR and on the Lehrer News Hour as well.

Talk about "cherry-picking" intelligence...!