Here is the NY Times article tonight. The one Drudge mentioned.

[madfloridian]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/03intel.html?hp

[Jacobin]

1. A snip

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -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.

But the officials continued to regard the information as significant and troubling because the reconnaissance already conducted has provided Al Qaeda with the knowledge necessary to carry out attacks against the sites in Manhattan, Washington and Newark. They said Al Qaeda had often struck years after its operatives began surveillance of an intended target.

[rhubarb]

2. from what I've read...

They also supposedly scoped out the tallest building in San Francisco, another financial institution -- the Bank of America building. Wonder why they weren't included in the list of financial institutions put on alert?

Heck, no, nothing political behind it at all. Or maybe that will be the next alert -- scare the heck out of everyone in the solid blue states.

[Cha]

3. Also heard bush wife and daughters in NYC!

Why would they go there if this was anything but gross political badgering?