List of Foiled (terra) Plots Puzzling to Some

[Nightwing]

White House Document Mixes Half-Baked Plans With Serious Terrorist Threats

A White House list of 10 terrorist plots disrupted by the United States has confused counterterrorism experts and officials, who say they cannot distinguish between the importance of some incidents on the list and others that were left off.

Intelligence officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the White House overstated the gravity of the plots by saying that they had been foiled, when most were far from ready to be executed. Others noted that the nation's color-coded threat index was not raised from yellow, or "elevated" risk of attack, to orange, or "high" risk, for most of the time covered by the incidents on the list.

The president made it "sound like well-hatched plans," said a former CIA official involved in counterterrorism during that period. "I don't think they fall into that category."

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"We don't know how they came to the conclusions they came to," said one counterterrorism official, who spoke anonymously for fear of angering the White House. "It's safe to say that most of the community doesn't think it's worth very much."

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/22/AR2005102201162.html?nav=hcmodule
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Sure looks like the chimp is chief got his hand caught in the cookie jar..............AGAIN!!

Let the spin by the Repukes begin!

[Missy M]

1. It's called keeping up the 'Fear Factor' of the American people...

so they will back the illegal war. Only problem for bush is it is no longer working.

[Nightwing]

3. My hope is this

That the rest of the MSM hammers * on his continued use of propagandized terra alerts. It's all a dog and pony show to keep his base scared shitless.

[leveymg]

2. The WP could've printed this story the next morning. Why not?

Why do we always have to wait for the damage to be done before the major papers publish critical articles or retractions of spin? Why the constant delays?

[Neil Lisst]

4. "And then one time, at band camp ...."

This is the most self-congratulatory administration in history. And like the drunken braggart at the epicenter, they lie because the truth is they suck at everything.

[Eugene]

5. Selection criteria: Make Justice/FBI look important

Several real and important plots that didn't make the list.
The shoe bombing was foiled by passengers and crew, not the FBI.
The round capture of al-Qaeda operatives is important,
but not spectacular like plots to blow stuff up.

The plots listed were sensational even if they lacked
substance and they don't make the FBI look bad in an
obvious way. Excellent material for keep people afraid.

This is important. Recommened.

edited for spelling