In the movie, V for Vendetta, when the terrorist V has the government of the evil high chancellor (think a cross between Dick Cheney and James Dobson with an English accent) in an uproar, the decision is made to “remind the people why they need us.” Soon after, a series of stories is broadcast warning of impending doom from terrorism, disease, anarchy, etc. As a patron at one of the English pubs observes after seeing yet another scary report: “Can you believe this shit?”
Well, can you believe this shit?
A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror “spectacular” this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.
I wonder who is the “senior official” from whom ABC had the good luck to receive this leak, don’t you?
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Is it Cherthoff? If so, he continues to deny publicly that homeland security has any solid evidence for this claim of a spectacular attack. And, unlike many prior administrations, terror warnings in this administration are just about the only think that gets leaked on a regular basis (other than the names of covert CIA agents, that is). My guess? Karl Rove or someone acting on his behalf. He’s definitely a senior official with continuing access to classified materials. In any event, what does the report have to tell us about this grave threat to America from the Islamofascist Menace?
“This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001,” the official told ABCNews.com.
You mean the same warnings that Bush, Cheney and Rice ignored back in the summer of 2001? Nice to know they are paying attnetion this time, isn’t it? Even nicer of them to leak this to the public right before the Fourth, and right after the bungled attempts in the UK where the world’s worst terrorists couldn’t figure out how to make gasoline go boom.
But it’s this next part that makes you go, hmmmmm.
As ABCNews.com reported, U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of terror attacks in Glasgow and Prague, the Czech Republic, against “airport infrastructure and aircraft.”
The warnings apparently never reached officials in Scotland, who said this weekend they had received “no advance intelligence” that Glasgow might be a target.
So the US intelligence community had received reports of a specific terrorists plot planned for Glasgow’s airport, and couldn’t get around to informing the Scottish authorities or the British government of this fact? Either the communication of intelligence with our principal allies has gone seriously, almost tragically awry, or we have someone in our government who chose not to pass on this specific terrorist threat against Glasgow. Or it is all one big lie. Take your pick.
None of those options appears to be particularly sanguine, now do they? It’s either gross negligence, a deliberate act to allow a terrorist attack or a complete fabrication meant to make us feel safer (George Bush is on the job!) even as we are meant to be scared out of our wits by this looming terrorist spectacular.
My belief is that Al Qaeda is always talking about plans for a “spectacular attack.” This summer, next summer, in Autumn, in Winter and in the Spring. It probably doesn’t matter when you look. But what better time to reveal all this “chatter” among Al Qaeda operatives than after a failed attack in Britain. What better time for the Bush administration to turn to it’s lackeys in the mainstream media and give them this tale of danger and doom than right now? Bush’s approval ratings are in the tank, more than 7 out of 10 Americans want us to leave Iraq, and numerous scandals beset the Bush White House, scandals in which the subpoenas have started to fly. What better time for them to remind ordinary Americans “How much they still need us!”
What do you think?
