Terror alert reports old (Summary of news links from Yahoo/Google)

[scottxyz]

Sometimes it's interesting to see how a breaking story makes its way through the media.

WaPo and NYT were the first to report that the reports behind this weekend's "terror alerts" were 3-4 years old. You can follow this news item as other news organizations pick it up:

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=terror+alert+reports+old&c=&ei=UTF-8
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&newsclusterurl=http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/9305507.htm

{edited to include Google now}

This is different from the usual situation, where news percolates on DU for months before the "mainstream media" pick it up. This time, WaPo and NYT exposed the ancient terror reports within 24 hours. (I guess they were pissed - the terror reports claimed that NY and DC were targets.)

We should also note which news outlets FAIL to mention that the terror reports were 3-4 years old.

[NWHarkness]

1. I just did the same thing with Google News

The story is out there!

[incapsulated]

2. They don't care if they bankrupt NYC

With their fake "alerts" because they know we are voting for Kerry.


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.

*snip*

Frances Fragos Townsend, the White House homeland security adviser, said on Monday in an interview on PBS that surveillance reports, apparently collected by Qaeda operatives had been "gathered in 2000 and 2001.'' But she added that information may have been updated as recently as January.

The comments of government officials on Monday seemed softer in tone than the warning issued the day before. On Sunday, officials were circumspect in discussing when the surveillance of the financial institutions had occurred, and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge cited the quantity of intelligence from "multiple reporting streams'' that he said was "alarming in both the amount and specificity of the information.''

*snip*

A sizable part of the information seized in Pakistan described reconnaissance carried out before the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said. The documents do not indicate who wrote the detailed descriptions of security arrangements at the financial buildings or whether the surveillance was conducted for a current operation or was part of preparations for a plan that was later set aside.

In a briefing on Sunday, a senior intelligence official said that the threat to the financial institutions "probably continues even today."

Wow. "Probably continues even to this day!" Based on that, let's lock down the fucking city just in case!

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

:grr:

[flordehinojos]

4. BUSH IS REHEARSING FOR HIS SECOND REICHSTAG COMING!

}( :mad: :smoke: :think: It is easy to see through the Bushes' smoke and screen. They are rehearsing for the second Reichstag coming which they will launch just on or before election day Nov. 2, 2004.

[Old and In the Way]

3. You might find this link of interest

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

It gives a visual context to a newstory, in terms of it's amplification.