So Why Has Our Threat Level Been Raised?
Quite interesting that so quickly after the Democratic National Convention we have a sudden attention grab back to the "War on Terror." It was just TOO convenient, as are so many things in this political campaign. An interesting spin on the whole thing is in Capitol Hill Blue
The increased terror alerts in New York, New Jersey and Washington are based more on President George W. Bush's political campaign needs than any actual threat and the information used to justify the alerts is three years old, intelligence pros complain.
The alerts, planned weeks ago, came right after the Democratic National Convention in Boston as a carefully-orchestrated attempt to play on Bush’s strengths in the war against terrorism and blunt any momentum challenger John F. Kerry might have coming out of the convention.
Much of the "new" information cited as reasons for raising the alert dates back to 2001.
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