This story disappeared too quickly:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-10-ridge-alerts_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-10-ridge-alerts_x.htm
Terrorist Plot FOILED under Obama!
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you're wrong, obama uses fear mongering as much as bush....
and it really isn't that much fear mongering if the threats are real....just like when libs defend obama's fear mongering over healthcare.....the economy....etc
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that is because it wasn't much of a story
The head of Homeland Security, basically saying that the admin was ginning up fear for political reasons, against his advice & knowledge?
You're kidding, right?
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Perhaps he's a kid.
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he said they disagreed on the threat level....thats a yawner
and i believe ridge later downplayed the entire thing and said he was not pressured....like i said...its a non issue and liberals are just hyperventilating over nothing....
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/then-now-ridge-downplays-terror-alert-story.php
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Ridge's initial assessment was pretty clear. Anyone who has observed politics for more than a few years understands the dynamics of the "backtrack."
Beyond that, they were completely consistent with all of the other damning evidence we have that the Bush admin manipulated intel & used fear for political reasons: memo's from British intel, a bipartisan Senate committee report, Paul O'Neil, Paul Wolfowicz, Colin Powell's office, et al.
It's the proverbial mountain of evidence, and the height of naivite to deny it at this point...
Beyond that, they were completely consistent with all of the other damning evidence we have that the Bush admin manipulated intel & used fear for political reasons: memo's from British intel, a bipartisan Senate committee report, Paul O'Neil, Paul Wolfowicz, Colin Powell's office, et al.
It's the proverbial mountain of evidence, and the height of naivite to deny it at this point...
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You are right and you talk purty!
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to funny....you believe ridge then, but not now....like ridge said, you're hyperventilating
sure they worked some of it up, but the threats were real and as we see, the threats are still real....despite the messiah being elected
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It was fear mongering, when Bushco did it.
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use your mod powers to deny that shit....now, please, for the love of all that is good and precious.....
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Ahhhh....I really hate to burst your bubbles, pinheads...
but you all might as well put your peckers back in your pants, rinse you mouths out, and return your heads to your rectums .......
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement had been monitoring Zazi for a year, suggested one official. Their initial interest was spurred by contacts he had made in Pakistan with "well known bad guys with reputations and histories," that is terrorists along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
The contacts were mostly “message traffic”, said the official, that is telephone conversations and e-mail. Once U.S. intelligence understood Zazi was a U.S. resident, the case was turned over to federal law enforcement.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33002562/ns/us_news-security/page/2/
Gee whiz...monitoring Zazi for a year....that means this anti-terrorism bust was an George Bush Admin. gig......started when???
About September or 2008.....? Yep....thats the breaks....
So you are saying that it was under Bush that they began to monitor and investigate him? Wow, serious pHail. I've already heard some of the more ready to accuse saying that it is a distraction and that they went after this guy now to distract from the health care debate and try to pass something unpalatable.