Old data, new credibility issues (dupe)

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

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To some extent, the disclosure that the federal government only now learned that three years ago al Qaeda was checking out these buildings underscores the limited nature of the intelligence in the government's hands -- and how little the administration knows about al Qaeda's activities.

Michael Greenberger, director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland, found it curious that the administration withheld the dated nature of the information at the time of the original announcement and disclosed it only after President Bush made a Rose Garden appearance Monday to discuss reforms of the intelligence community recommended by the Sept. 11 commission.

When Bush held his news conference, reporters knew only that the administration had recently uncovered this information. Bush "would have faced more difficult questions" if reporters had known how much of the information had been obtained three years after the surveillance, Greenberger said.

Greenberger added that the alert "has left a lot of anger in its wake" among local officials, who had to use resources and money that might have been held in reserve if the age of the intelligence had been clear from the beginning. He said the administration's credibility may be hurt the next time it issues a warning.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5595134/


Here's the first thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x726833

[lapfog_1]

1. Hell Ya

Three years after 9/11 and we can't find out anything about what
they are up to IN OUR COUNTRY??? WTF?

Freepers and their apologists have been all over the talking head
show saying how Al Qaeda takes years to plan an attack... we
should have a come back of "It's a damn good thing too, otherwise
we would only learn of it from the loud explosions going off around
the country"