Townsend Says Election Is Potential Terrorism Target - WTF?

[OregonBlue]

Before she leaves President George W. Bush's administration in early 2008, Townsend said she wants to make sure that plans are in place to head off any potential terrorist threat before or after elections for president and Congress and to ensure there is ``no lag in information sharing'' between the Bush administration and the next occupant of the White House.

``We know that al-Qaeda'' tends to view elections ``as a period of vulnerability,'' Townsend, 45, said in an interview. ``I don't know if there will be a particular threat, but we can't ignore what we have already seen.''

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTst06GVzyDc&refer=home

[babylonsister]

1. She has to get her final fearmongering in, I see. nt

[OregonBlue]

3. Is it fearmongering or just letting us know they are working on the potential of

shutting down the elections. Put it out there, see if it gets any coverage? Dipping their toe in the water to see how the "message" will be received?

[Kahuna]

5. Pitiful. Just pitiful.

:wow:

[Bluebear]

2. Oh, OK, we better not vote.

:silly:

[OregonBlue]

4. Or in their minds, We Better Not Let Them Vote, Too Dangerous!!

[driver8]

6. She is setting it all up so that Shrub can suspend elections.

Now all we have to do is sit back and wait for the "Next Pearl Harbor."

[tritsofme]

7. Or maybe elections and transitions are prime targets for those wishing to cause terror

Gee, you don't have to be a presidential adviser to think to yourself that such an event might fuck things up.

[gratuitous]

10. Yeah, this looks like the floating of the trial balloon

Will there be serious consideration given to postponing elections? Will this idea take hold in the public mind?

My answer: I sure as hell hope not. I remember NYC, traumatized as it was by the 9/11 attacks, bade farewell to Mr. Giuliani right on schedule. Despite Rudy's stated desire to oversee a "short" period of an extension of his mayoralty, somehow a big enough majority of New Yorkers said that Rudy had done enough to--I mean, for the City, and had more than earned release from his duties.

Bush will likewise be asked to make sure that the Oval Office is prepared for a new occupant on January 20, 2009, if not sooner. I think it would also be appropriate to surround the vice president's hideout and chant "Get out of (insert name of vice president here)'s house!" over and over again.

[bunnies]

8. booga booga! Terra terra!

Be afraid damnit!

[grasswire]

9. what's the evidence of that?

When and where has al-Qaeda disrupted elections?? I don't remember reading about that.

[DesEtoiles]

11. Sounds like she would fit in on Rudy's campaign

[K Gardner]

12. Its how they're going to steal the election THIS time

Third times a charm, yanno..