Chicken Little redux

Or is it the boy who cried wolf still at it?

An article in Tuesday's Washington Post notes that the administration has distanced itself from previous warnings about a terrorist threat during the inauguration. In April, Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge announced that terrorists might strike during inauguration week, but at a press conference last week, Ridge changed his tune and said that there is actually no evidence to support any concern. The article's authors, Dan Eggen and Sari Horowitz, say that this is the administration's latest retreat from last year's many terrorism warnings. Not only is it evidence that the warnings "were based largely on faulty intelligence, dated information or - as with the inauguration - an educated guess," they say, but it "underscores a simmering political debate over whether [the warnings] were influenced by a presidential campaign in which national security figured prominently."
  Behind the Homefront article

Could it be?

How many times can they use the threat to drag the public along? Innumerable it appears.

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