Kerry was right - AGAIN

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This piece from Salon's War Roomcaptures exactly what I'm thinking. BTW, Tim Grieve is not a big time Kerry fan, so I consider this significant.

The New York terror alert: Questions where there shouldn't be

When we caught a ride with
It turned out that Kerry was right to be concerned. Long after the election was over, former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge acknowledged that the Bush administration had sometimes raised alert levels based on flimsy evidence and over his objections.

So what are we to make of yesterday's news of a heightened alert for the New York subway system? Maybe the alert is justified by credible intelligence: Officials say they have received intelligence that a group of men had hatched a plan to hide explosives in baby strollers and briefcases and then set them off in the subway. Or maybe the alert, or at least the timing of it, had something to do with changing the subject for the White House: After all, as Bush's Supreme Court nominee runs into opposition and his chief political advisor returns to the grand jury room, the White House is suddenly talking an awful lot about the global war on terrorism again.

The answer is, we just don't know. It's the problem with the boy who cried wolf. We know that the government has raised the terror alert level before on what turned out to be false information. We know that the government had a hand in manipulating the timing of the news this time around. We're not saying that there's anything nefarious going on here. We're just saying that there's reason to wonder, and there shouldn't be.

-- Tim Grieve

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1. News from Wonkette

October 07
New York Asks Citizens to Be Wary

Love The DoggyCommenting on the New York City's heightened terror alert, NYC Police Commissioner said yesterday, "We ask the public to report anything suspicious."

::Raises hand::

Would that include the timing of the alert?

New York Steps Up Subway Security
RELATED: NYC BLOWN UP FOR PAYING TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO ROVE, MIERS

READ MORE: incredibly convenient terror alerts , new york city , war on terror

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2. Gawker

NYC BLOWN UP FOR PAYING TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO ROVE, MIERS
READ MORE: Subway, nypd, politics, safety, terror

Forgive us if we’re a bit sluggish this morning, but we were blown up last night (19 different times, no less) in that captivating terror attack we were warned about. Serves us right, we suppose, for vigilantly supporting the MTA over the TLC.

More than anything, we’re amazed that Bloomberg, the NYPD, and the FBI claim the threat is “credible,” while the DHS insists the threat is “not credible.” Can’t you all just agree on how panicky and distracted you want us to be right now?

Police Investigate New York Subway Terror Threat

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3. exactly what I was saying in the other thread

Fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice...

People are just not going to believe this guy anymore--he's the fool.