Jan. Photos Said Used for Terror Alert

[DEMonstate]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Authorities have evidence that new surveillance photographs were taken of Prudential Financial's headquarters in Newark in January, a top homeland security official said Friday, even as President Bush defended the decision to issue terrorism warnings on the basis of old intelligence.

In the past, U.S. officials have said only that there was some evidence of new surveillance as late as January of this year.

But James Loy, the deputy secretary of homeland security and No. 2 official at the agency, told a reporter for The Associated Press, that new photographs were taken in January of the building's interior and exterior, and were not simply old photographs that had been altered or otherwise updated.

"Both inside and out," Loy told The Associated Press following a ceremony to confer badges on officers of the department's U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040806/D849UNT00.html

[acmavm]

1. 'Some evidence? Right, and I'm being recruited for Mensa.

.

[fob]

2. Once agian information that could hamper an ongoing investigation

is released as political cover for shrubco*.

[lapfog_1]

3. That would be difficult

since they are attributing the surveillance photos to the
guy they arrested in London.

And even the "updates" they say occurred in Jan are in question,
since that info may be coming from "change dates" on computer
files... and that information doesn't mean squat.

[SoCalDem]

4. January..........July..........

Unless there is a date stamp on the pictures..(and the camera was found to verify it), those pictures could have been "saved as" in January, but could have been taken YEARS AGO ....I have a picture of ME that I put on my harddrive a month or so ago.. It was TAKEN in 1955...:shrug:..

[struggle4progress]

5. But see the story in this thread ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x733821

The company sez the "new photo" story ain't true.