"Suspect Confirmed Terror Threat, U.S. Says"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration learned from a third person, separate from two prisoners identified this week, that al-Qaida was plotting to attack American financial buildings, officials said.

The information from the third person was "another new stream of intelligence" that supported the White House decision to issue a terror warning on Sunday, the officials said.

The information arrived days before the public alert, as officials were reviewing reams of recently obtained documents and photographs that showed surveillance of five buildings in New York City, New Jersey and Washington carried out years earlier by al-Qaida.

"Old information isn't irrelevant information - particularly with this kind of enemy," Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040805/D8492R280.html

[papau]

1. We know they plan to attack and we know nothing about timing - so why

raise terror alert and step all over Kerry's convention bounce.

I guess the question answers it self - except on the GE/NBC Today show with Tweety lying and saying Osama had "recently cased" these buildings.

But Tweety and NBC are allowed to lie - Fox even has a Court case that agrees "news" outlets may lie.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. "Hey, we're gonna attack you... three years ago!"

[kentuck]

3. Tell me these quotes are not lies....

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"Coupled with general threat reporting, coupled with other pieces of information, then all of the sudden you say to yourself, 'This is a time when we have to talk to America about the threat.' And that's exactly what we did," Ridge said.

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"A bunch of things came together at the same time," Frances Townsend, the White House Homeland Security adviser, said in an interview Wednesday with National Public Radio. She said the corroborating information came from "a very sensitive ongoing investigation in another part of the world."

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White House spokesman Scott McClellan declined to describe in detail what he called "another new stream of intelligence," saying it might endanger continuing intelligence operations. He criticized as an "irresponsible suggestion" any criticism that the administration had issued a terror warning for political purposes.

"When you connect all these streams of intelligence, it paints an alarming picture," McClellan told reporters aboard Air Force One during a campaign flight to Iowa.

[Must_B_Free]

4. Who was the third person? Dick Cheney?