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"The Nexus of Politics and Terror (Keith Olbermann) Secaucus - Last Thursday on Countdown, I referred to the latest terror threat - the reported bomb plot against the New York City subway system - in terms of its timing. President Bush’s speech about the war on terror had come earlier the same day, as had the breaking news of the possible indictment of Karl Rove in the CIA leak investigation. I suggested that in the last three years there had been about 13 similar coincidences - a political downturn for the administration, followed by a “terror event” - a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9665308/#051012a

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"Ridge reveals clashes on alerts By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge now says. Ridge, who resigned Feb. 1, said Tuesday that he often disagreed with administration officials who wanted to elevate the threat level to orange, or "high" risk of terrorist attack, but was overruled. His comments at a Washington forum describe spirited debates over terrorist intelligence and provide rare insight into the inner workings of the nation's homeland security apparatus. Ridge said he wanted to "debunk the myth" that his agency was responsible for repeatedly raising the alert under a color-coded system he unveiled in 2002. "More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it," Ridge told reporters. "Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country on (alert). ... There were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?' ""

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-10-ridge-alerts_x.htm

10/13/2005 8:34:10 PM

Very interesting.

10/13/2005 8:54:56 PM

theres no doubt

before the election there were terror warning every 6 minutes

-there were no attacks
-no attacks were foiled
-bin laden himself said he doesnt care who wins the election, he cares about policy

10/13/2005 9:09:49 PM

Gotta shock the sheep I suppose.

10/13/2005 9:13:11 PM

david cross has the best commentary on this

the second half of track 06 on "its not funny"

[Edited on October 13, 2005 at 10:20 PM. Reason : `]

10/13/2005 10:16:54 PM

It was pretty obvious that this was occurring. I just didn't know that it occurred this many times (13 at least).

10/13/2005 10:30:25 PM

the threat seems serious, abc just did a report on colleges with nuke reactors and managed to say the words terrorists, ground zero, dirty bomb, and 9/11 about 10 times each.

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=357479&page=1

10/13/2005 11:29:52 PM

Wait, if no terrorist attacks were thwarted then who were the people we just sent to prison for attempting terrorist attacks?

10/14/2005 12:25:09 AM

ask teh riaa

10/14/2005 12:27:25 AM