Reply #13: Once again they used terror for political gain.... [View All]

[Virginia Dare]

It appears what happened was that a couple of months back the British government (probably Tony Blair) tipped the U.S. Government (Bush/Cheney) to the fact that they were possibly onto a terrorist cell were investigating and watching them, but they didn't have anything solid yet.

Bush/Cheney used this information for political gain in the context of the Lieberman/Lamont race, either by coming so close to letting the cat out of the bag that the British authorities got worried it would tip the alleged conspirators off, or by putting heavy duty pressure on the British government to break it at that time.

Bush/Cheney probably already knew there wasn't anything substantive to this alleged plot and wanted to get as much political mileage out of it that they could.