Drudge busts Bu$h on intel. Siren screaming!

[DemoTex]

QUAIDA DOCUMENT YEARS OLD

[Dookus]

1. subtitle reads:

Much of the information that led authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the NY and D.C. areas was 3 or 4 years old... NYT Tuesday Page One Splash To Claim: Intelligence and law enforcement officials 'had not yet found concrete evidence that a terror plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way'...

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oooh... New Yorkers will NOT like this

[gristy]

13. Oh, man. The NY alert was what, the lead (or maybe 2nd) story on CBS

news tonight. And the NY Times is going to declare later tonight that the terror alert was pretty much a hoax? Oh, DanR is NOT going to be a happy camper. :mad:

[gristy]

49. Here's the NY Times story, hot off the press

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/03intel.html?hp
Posted in another thread.

[leftyandproud]

51. hahaha! go drudge!

I know most DU'ers hate him because he broke the scrubebd clinton/newseek story...but he really seems to be even handed when it comes to breaking news. I heard him say "I go where the stink is."...and I think that is accurate.

[spotbird]

2. Have the poles shifted already?

What's up with that?

[Bluebear]

3. NYT Tuesday Page One Splash To Claim: 3or 4 years old

'Much of the information that led authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the NY and D.C. areas was 3 or 4 years old... NYT Tuesday Page One Splash To Claim: Intelligence and law enforcement officials 'had not yet found concrete evidence that a terror plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way'...

[NMDemDist2]

4. did you hear that? what is that sound?

ooooooo it's freeper's heads exploding


ROFL :bounce:

[WLKjr]

16. You heard somethign AZ? I felt something

the ground kind of shook a little here, must have been the air blast.

[NMDemDist2]

21. hehehehe wonder if Drudge is giving up the Dark Side? n/t

[WLKjr]

27. I think he is seriously considering it

but the force isn't strong with this one. :0

[blm]

5. It's in LBN...It's a NYTimes story, front page tomorrow.

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[MikeG]

6. When you steal his siren image, does it cost him money?

[DemoTex]

I hope so. I'll cop an Abbie Hoffman plea.

Steal This Book.

[Junkdrawer]

29. Remember Abbie's chapter on Monkey warfare?

Glue "Guaranteed return postage" cards to wrapped bricks. :evilgrin:

[DemoTex]

30. I have lost count of the number of times Dr. D. and I have done that.

She actually turned me on to Hoffman's works.

[imax2268]

7. anyone

got a link...?

I sure hate to go to drudge to get this info...

this ought to be good...

[wurzel]

8. They were really pre-911 optional targets.

The whole "alert" is a total scam. But the media ran with it anyway. What's new?

[NMDemDist2]

26. they have no choice, it's the Dir of HS.. what are they gonna say?

but Kerry was quite cool and said "We must take them at their word" and if it gets outed like that, the K/E campaign will have a field day



ROFLMFAO

[gardenista]

36. Good job, Kerry. AND, when there are alerts, people SHOULD stay home

When these false alerts start having a real econmomic impact, Shrubco may have to think twice before waving them around every time Kerry's numbers are better than Shrubbie's.

[wurzel]

43. They could have told us the "information" was over two years old.

They must have known. Or they they didn't they should have checked. It is not their function to parrot the Government. Even in "wartime". Just how long is the media going to hide behind "Homeland Security" for not doing their homework?

[Junkdrawer]

9. It's like they're begging Kerry to call them on the fake Terror Alerts...

Anyone else smell setup?

[MikeG]

11. I was just thinking that. If Kerry says anything..

They got him if a real terror attack comes.

They can say well we would have warned everyone but we were taking too much heat for it from the Democrats.

[lancdem]

15. That's why Kerry lets surrogates like Dean

do the talking.

[merh]

25. Kerry called them on it today...

He said that the leadership was not handling the terra scares properly and the subordinates were doing as best they could, despite the poor leadership. I have to find the link, but he said he thought it was political and unfair to the American people.

[Literate Tar Heel]

39. I was thinking the same thing yesterday ... how sad is that?

it's very sad that we're at the point where our government can release information like this and the first thing I think of is that if Kerry even hints at it being politically motivated, they'll make sure an attack happens against their own people just to make Kerry look bad ... and the sadder part is I don't even feel like I have a tin foil hat on when I think it

[sandnsea]

31. "It would be monstrous"

My husband said he heard Kerry say that today. That he disagrees with Howard because "it would be monstrous" for the President to play politics with security. Anybody else hear that? So as this terror alert unravels, we've got Kerry saying "it would be monstrous". How cool of a soundbyte is that?

[dmr]

53. That would be an excellent sound byte.

"It would be monstrous!" Quite an indictment.

[gardenista]

35. Yes, exactly, this is psyops on Kerry. I hope he is careful

about how he handles this.

[nose pin]

10. It must be a lie

It's Drudge.

[Dookus]

23. enough already

Drudge's "exclusives" are quite often bullshit, but the vast bulk of what he does is just cull other news sites. This citation is from the New York Times, not Drudge. There's no link yet because the paper isn't out yet.

[lancdem]

12. I knew Howard Dean was on the money

I could tell it was political because Ridge felt compelled to turn his press conference yesterday into a Bush commercial.

[Skip Intro]

I hope Joe effin' Lieberman reads the Times tomorrow

What a disgrace.

Once again, Dean has given voice to the painfully obvious (at least to DUers).

Thank you Howard Dean.

Thank you.

And Joe, please, just stfu.

[DemoTex]

14. This was reported by the BBC earlier today. Looking for link now.

I thought I saw it on DU. Might have been BuzzFlash or BartCop. Help me out. This is big fucking shit my friends!

[slinkerwink]

18. I need that link too!

[gristy]

20. nothing in news.google

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&q=terror+alert+old+documents&scoring=d
though a different search might turn something up...

[Bluebear]

17. No wonder Bush let Laura visit Citicorp/NYC today

[Gin]

22. fran Townsend on the news hour tonight said the info was from 2000 and

2001 but they compared it with recent intel and came up with that threat....so it came from the horses mouth....and pakistan

[gardenista]

38. WTF??????? So even he doesn't pretend to believe it? My, my. eom

[59millionmorons]

19. Olberman reported this

Time for the media to bring the hammer down.

[Junkdrawer]

24. Shit, he sent his wife and BOTH kids to the very building specified...

in the alert.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2141275

I'm telling you, Rove is begging Kerry to call him on it.

[Lerkfish]

44. thats a very interesting theory..

and sounds very rovian-- can you expand it a bit tho? i mean exactly how would it be a workable trap for kerry? do you mean they trick him into denouncing the alert, and then do a MIHOP call yo actually create a terrorist attack, just to say i told you so? that would be monstrous indeed.
if that's not what you mean, could elaborate?

[kentuck]

46. Pickles requested it after Dubya told her it was safe...

She wanted to look braver than that bitch Teresa... :)

[Junkdrawer]

48. Exactly that...I posted this on Sunday...

Fake alerts until October's Attack followed by a Stolen Election...

Other than that, enjoy the summer.

PS: The fake alerts are a ploy to get Kerry to condemn the fake attacks. If he does condemn them before October, THEN I would worry. Carry on.

[Lerkfish]

50. ok thanks.. i THOUGHT that was what you meant...scary n/t.

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[AlCzervik]

28. Well Hey, Bushco went to war on 5 years old intel

this isn't really surprising, but i bet it's going to piss alot of people off.

[DemoTex]

33. Bingo!

As a former ASA'er (Army Security Agency), I am aghast at this regimes cooking of the intel books. Shakespeare said "the devil can cite scripture for his own purpose." But even the devil would be smart enough to use current information. Not years old information.

Now (!), don't let the Bu$h regime blame this fiasco on the intelligence community. Oh, no. This is a contrivance on a criminal level. Scream bloody foul and grab their rotten balls.

[AlCzervik]

You know what makes even even angrier

is the fact that no one comes out and says that on any "Opionin" shows or at press conferences. I mean someone needs to be shouting...Why the Fuck did we go to war on 5 year old intel???!!! It's crazy and no one is ever going to be held accountable, at least not the way they should be..ie..welscme to the pen bro.

[calimary]

52. Some of the intel was older than that.

Or maybe you meant that it was intel furnished to bushco by some five-year-old?

[Renew Deal]

32. I knew it and so did many of my other friends here.

These bastards are scaring people for NO REASON. Fucking criminals.

[buycitgo]

hahahaharrrrrrrrrrrrr

they're talking about this on AAR as I type

"who/s going to listen to this, by these IDIOTs, these abusers, these PIRATES of the public trust"

words to live by from Sam

[buycitgo]

hahahaharrrrrrrrrrrrr

they're talking about this on AAR as I type

"who/s going to listen to this, by these IDIOTs, these abusers, these PIRATES of the public trust"

words to live by from Sam

[buycitgo]

34. hahahaharrrrrrrrrrrrr

they're talking about this on AAR as I type

"who/s going to listen to this, by these IDIOTs, these abusers, these PIRATES of the public trust"

words to live by from Sam

[Berserker]

40. I got this from a fellow DUer

"VOICE or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism ..." - Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarschall

[0007]

37. Can't wait to see Jon Stewart tonight,

he'll put this in the right prospective.

Jon is the antidote to a junior overload.

[DemoTex]

41. 11 pm?

I normally watch "The Daily Show" on the following night's 7 pm re-run.

[southernleftylady]

42. I thought this intel came from some guy in pakistan 8/13?n/t

[hedgehog]

45. The trouble with crying wolf

is that sooner or later, the wolf shows up and no one is paying attention.

[wicket]

47. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:kick: