From The Washington Post, 10/23/04:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55597-2004Oct22.html
No Direct Evidence of Plot To Attack Around Elections
By Dan Eggen and Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, October 23, 2004; Page A01
On Sept. 15, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III and John E.
McLaughlin, then acting director of the CIA, brought a special note of
concern to their daily briefing with President Bush.
Fresh intelligence had arrived pointing to plans for a mass-casualty
terrorist attack before Election Day, bolstering previous indications
that such an assault was possible on U.S. soil, according to accounts
of the briefing provided to Mueller's and McLaughlin's subordinates.
What's more, intelligence officials told Bush, there was reason to
believe that the plotters may already have arrived in the United
States, according to the accounts.
The new information led the FBI and other agencies across the
government to launch a well-publicized campaign aimed at foiling
potential plots before the elections, including hundreds of interviews
in immigrant neighborhoods and aggressive surveillance of suspected
terrorist sympathizers.
But five weeks after the effort began, U.S. intelligence and law
enforcement officials say they have found no direct evidence of an
election-related terrorist plot.
Authorities also say that a key CIA source who had claimed knowledge
of such plans has been discredited, casting doubt on one of the
earliest pieces of evidence pointing to a possible attack.
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Now there's this story 'bout the li'l boy who cried wolf...........
http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html
Harry
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