Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Orange alert, dumbshitz

Further on that three-four-year-old information that led to the high alert to steal Dem convention attention:

That stunt. That shameless propaganda. Your trusted leaders have both your tits in a wringer and your balls (if you have any) in their self-serving greedy, grubby fists. Right where they want you.

Now vote Republican, unless you want them to squeeze.

"There is nothing right now that we're hearing that is new," said one senior law enforcement official who was briefed on the alert. "Why did we go to this level? . . . I still don't know that."

One piece of information on one building, which intelligence officials would not name, appears to have been updated in a computer file as late as January 2004, according to a senior intelligence official. But officials could not say yesterday whether that piece of data was the result of active surveillance by al Qaeda or came instead from information about the buildings that is publicly available.
  WaPo article

Many administration officials stressed yesterday that even three-year-old intelligence, when coupled with other information about al Qaeda's plans to attack the United States, justified the massive security response in the three cities....

Intelligence officials said that the remarkably detailed information about the surveillance -- which included logs of pedestrian traffic and notes on the types of explosives that might work best against each target -- was evaluated in light of general intelligence reports received this summer indicating that al Qaeda hopes to strike a U.S. target before the November presidential elections.

Yes, and it just so happened that the most appropriate time to release that information and twist your tit a little tighter was right before John Kerry was to give his big speech. Not earlier this summer right after those reports were received. Not nearer the November election date. But right when it could steal a little thunder from the Dems' convention. Isn't that amazing? What a coincidence.

Bush said the alert shows "there's an enemy which hates what we stand for."

You know what, asshat? I hate what you stand for, too. You stand for greed, and arrogance, and corruption, and public manipulation. Deceit and dishonor. Avoidance of responsibility. So don't include me when you say "we", you pathetic piece of offal.

"It's serious business," Bush said. "I mean, we wouldn't be, you know, contacting authorities at the local level unless something was real."

I wouldn't be, like saying, you know, I mean, you know, if I had something honest to say. Lying coward.

Employees at announced targets in New York and New Jersey arrived at work yesterday with a mix of defiance and jitters. Some said they wanted to send a message that terrorists could not deter them from living their lives as usual. Others were visibly shaken by the presence of heavily armed police officers and new barricades

Yeah, well, thank your lying asshat of a president and his repugnant dick of a VP and their toxic slimey political manager for that.



You are right. My tolerance meter has about topped out.

Other officials also stressed that, however long ago al Qaeda operatives compiled the surveillance details, the information was new to U.S. intelligence agencies and was almost unprecedented in the depth of its details. "All this stuff was fresh to us," one official said.

Big whoop! It's still old information! Give it to the fucking Worthless Commission.

At the CIA's daily 5 p.m. counterterrorism meeting Thursday, the first information about the detailed al Qaeda surveillance of the five financial buildings was discussed among senior CIA, FBI and military officials. They decided to launch a number of worldwide operations, including the deployment of increased law enforcement around the five buildings.

There's a saying for that kind of action. Something about a horse and a barn door.

Initially, top administration officials had decided to wait until yesterday to announce the alert, but more intelligence information was coming in -- both new translations of the documents, and analysis of other sources' statements -- that deepened their concern about the information, and persuaded them to move ahead swiftly. "There was a serious sense of urgency to get it out," the senior intelligence official said.

There's your new information. New translations and new analyses. I don't know. Are these people total incompetents are just plain assholes? This country is going to implode. That much is obvious.

Numerous officials said yesterday, however, that most of the information was compiled prior to the Sept. 11 attacks and that there are serious doubts about the age of other, undated files. One senior counterterrorism official said many of the documents include dates prior to Sept. 11, 2001, but there are no dates after that.

"Most of the information is very dated but you clearly have targets with enough specificity, and that pushed it over the edge," the counterterrorism official said. "You've got the Republican convention coming up, the Olympics, the elections. . . . I think there was a feeling that we should err on the side of caution even if it's not clear that anything is new."

I'll be waiting to see what that reference to January 2004 actually turns out to be.

Sickening. The timing of course was absolutely necessary, right? Why not err on the side of caution in a few weeks at the Republican convention? After all, the information predates the WTC attacks. The logical assumption would be that this was information used to decide which building(s) to attack on 9/11/01, and that those other buildings were passed over in favor of the WTC. At any rate, there was absolutely no reason to release this very old information or raise the alert at this particular time. No reason whatsoever. Except for the Bush/Pinochet campaign.

In New York yesterday, traffic backed up at tunnels and bridges into the city, Hercules and Atlas police teams toting rifles and machine guns checked vehicles, police helicopters crisscrossed the skies, and employees throughout the financial district stood in long security queues, showing their corporate identifications and bags to guards.

Around the NYSE in Lower Manhattan, rows of concrete and metal barricades were in place and side streets were blocked off.

In Newark, officials set up concrete barriers and police teams around the 24-story Prudential building, where about 1,000 employees work. "I'm a little nervous," analyst Tracy Swistak, 27, told the Associated Press. "But I'm confident Prudential's doing everything they can to ensure our safety."

On a virtual hoax! How much money did that cost? How many freaked out people? Oh well, there'll probably be some kickback for the drug companies there. A few more Valium prescriptions.

Mistakes can be made. This is not an error. This was intentional. Disgusting. Tom Ridge should be sacked. And all who are complicit should hang their heads in shame and feel lucky they still get to retain their citizenship. Americans! Preying on the fears of their fellow citizens.

If this is what "the enemy" hates, I may actually start to believe they hate us for who we are. We're predators. And we prey on our own.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Update 08/05:

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