Contradicting the AP story yesterday about planned terrorist attacks this summer, "officials" now say there is no new intelligence suggesting an attack is being planned. Despite this, Ashcroft and FBI Director Mueller are issuing a "new call for public awareness."
What the fuck? The AP reports new and "highly credible" evidence, "among the most disturbing received by the government" since 9/11, and less than 24 hours later Ashcroft is saying it ain't so.
Ashcroft and the Bush administration have a distinct interest in scaring the living shit out of every American for the next 5 months, and I predict we'll see more and more meaningless and vague "calls for vigilance" like this. We'll surely get a few orange alerts.
Of course, all of this would be a good thing if we had any reason to believe a word these jerks say.
I would love to hear more about this. Why these two so completely contradictory stories?
