If you missed it last night,
If you missed it last night, I would highly recommend going HERE to watch the segment from the Olberman show last night on The Nexus of Politics and Terror which listed ten different occasions where bad news for the Bush administration was rather quickly followed by a terror threat, or the release to the public of old intelligence or events.
He has a list on his blog, but, quite frankly, it's gonna take about as long to read as to watch the video segment.
Plus, he's got an interview with Asa Hutchinson, former number two at DHS. Pretty much said what you'd expect, except for one kind of awkward passage where he seemed to say quite clearly that DHS never raised the terror alert level for political reasons. But, how he said it seemed quite stilted and seemed to imply that he was only comfortable guaranteeing that he and Ridge had never used terror news to support the admin.
Remember that strange day when Ashcroft and Mueller made the announcement of a terror threat:
Wednesday the 26th. Two days later, Attorney General Ashcroft and FBI Director Mueller warn that intelligence from multiple sources, in Ashcroft’s words, “indicates Al-Qaeda’s specific intention to hit the United States hard,” and that “90 percent of the arrangements for an attack on the United States were complete.” The color-coded warning system is not raised, and Homeland Security Secretary Ridge does not attend the announcement.
Anyhow, when the transcript come up tonight or tomorrow, I'll link to it here as an update.
And once more, I'd recommend the video, seeing the pictures of it all really brings back memories of the time.
UPDATE: Transcript here. About half way down. Again, watching it is better.
He has a list on his blog, but, quite frankly, it's gonna take about as long to read as to watch the video segment.
Plus, he's got an interview with Asa Hutchinson, former number two at DHS. Pretty much said what you'd expect, except for one kind of awkward passage where he seemed to say quite clearly that DHS never raised the terror alert level for political reasons. But, how he said it seemed quite stilted and seemed to imply that he was only comfortable guaranteeing that he and Ridge had never used terror news to support the admin.
Remember that strange day when Ashcroft and Mueller made the announcement of a terror threat:
Wednesday the 26th. Two days later, Attorney General Ashcroft and FBI Director Mueller warn that intelligence from multiple sources, in Ashcroft’s words, “indicates Al-Qaeda’s specific intention to hit the United States hard,” and that “90 percent of the arrangements for an attack on the United States were complete.” The color-coded warning system is not raised, and Homeland Security Secretary Ridge does not attend the announcement.
Anyhow, when the transcript come up tonight or tomorrow, I'll link to it here as an update.
And once more, I'd recommend the video, seeing the pictures of it all really brings back memories of the time.
UPDATE: Transcript here. About half way down. Again, watching it is better.
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