QandO

August 17, 2004

Nice timing, after all....
Posted by Jon Henke

CNN reports...

British police have charged eight men arrested two weeks ago with terrorism-related offenses, including conspiracy to commit murder.

They are also accused of conspiring to commit public nuisance by "using radioactive materials, toxic gases, chemicals and/or explosives to cause a disruption."

In addition, one of the men is charged with possessing plans that could have been used as the basis for a terror attack on financial institutions in New York and Washington. He and another man face a similar charge concerning a financial building in New Jersey.

Oh. Right. I remember. That's the threat that....

• Oliver (Is It Political?).


• Ezra ("so stunningly duplicitous, so clearly a base ploy to divert attention from the Democrats").


• Ministry of Truth ("Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.")


• Publius ("a classic example of the "technically-not-a-lie-but-still-very-misleading" tactic")


• CarpetBagger ("It seems Ridge left out some of this pertinent information when he announced the threat.")


• Atrios ("this and other terror alerts in the past were explicitly political")

.... were telling us was an example of the Bush administration using the threat warnings for political advantage, rather than to warn of genuine, current threats.

Oops.

Thanks for not "playing politics" with our national security, guys. How about we lock you in a room with Senator Dan Coats and other Republicans who tried the same trick, when another President tried to defend our country from Osama Bin Laden. That seems fitting.

(Link via Robert Tagorda, who points out that CNN also "makes no references to the alerts")

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin makes a good point, too...

What say you now, Howard Dean?

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