So is the US safer or not?
Tom Ridge defended his Orange terror alerts for New York, Washington, and North Jersey by saying that even if the information was old, some of it had been updated recently. Plus:
“We said at the beginning that the casings were done in 2000 and 2001, but were updated as recently as January of this year,” said Fran Townsend, the White House homeland security adviser, in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show. “And, in fact, what we know about al Qaeda is that they case things and they do their homework well in advance and then update it before an attack.”
Hey, I’m all for pre-empting any possible attack by being more alert and trying to secure valuable buildings. Makes us safer and all that, right? The Bush administration has been working tirelessly over the last three years to disable and destroy al Qaeda, right?
“I think the indications are that this has been a very longstanding effort on the part of al Qaeda,” one official said Sunday, “that it dates from before 9/11, it continued after 9/11 and based on what it is that we are concerned about, we know about in terms of al Qaeda’s plans and intentions that it probably continues even today.”
So, three years after a country like the US, with all its defence spending, has *cough* taken the war to the enemy *cough*, terrorist groups like al Qaeda are still able to plan for attacks effectively enough to worry the Homeland Security Department?
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“We have turned the corner.” “America is safer.” Shrubya keeps blabbering about it in his campaign speeches, so it must be true, right? Oh wait, why was the Terror Alert raised then? :P
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