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"Harry Hope" |
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12 Jul 2007 08:08:37 AM |
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What color is Chertoff's gut? |
Does the president share the same "gut feeling'' that Chertoff has,
White House press secretary Tony Snow was asked later.
"I don't want to try to get into gastrointestinal descriptions,'' Snow
said.
From The Chicago Tribune, 7/11/07:
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/07/white_house_no_credbile_intell.html
White House: No 'credible intelligence' of summer terrorism threat
against the U.S.
by Mark Silva
For whatever "gut feeling'' Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff has about a potential terrorist attack against the United
States this summer, the White House said today that there is "no
credible intelligence'' to support that fear.
"There continues to be no credible intelligence to suggest that there
is an imminent threat to the homeland,'' said Tony Fratto, deputy
press secretary at the White House, a day after Chertoff told the
editorial board of the Tribune of his "gut feeling'' about a possible
attack this summer.
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Heckuva job, Chertoff
Harry
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| User: "Bruce Olin" |
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| Title: Re: What color is Chertoff's gut? |
12 Jul 2007 08:29:40 AM |
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"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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| Does the president share the same "gut feeling'' that Chertoff has,
| White House press secretary Tony Snow was asked later.
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| "I don't want to try to get into gastrointestinal descriptions,'' Snow
| said.
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| From The Chicago Tribune, 7/11/07:
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http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/07/white_house_no_credbile_intell.html
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| White House: No 'credible intelligence' of summer terrorism threat
| against the U.S.
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| by Mark Silva
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| For whatever "gut feeling'' Homeland Security Secretary Michael
| Chertoff has about a potential terrorist attack against the United
| States this summer, the White House said today that there is "no
| credible intelligence'' to support that fear.
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| "There continues to be no credible intelligence to suggest that there
| is an imminent threat to the homeland,'' said Tony Fratto, deputy
| press secretary at the White House, a day after Chertoff told the
| editorial board of the Tribune of his "gut feeling'' about a possible
| attack this summer.
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| Heckuva job, Chertoff
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| Harry
ARGUS HAMILTON - Thursday, July 12, 2007
Argus Hamilton
CNHI News Service
http://www.cushingdaily.com/editorials/local_story_192165107.html
<snip>
Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff said Tuesday he has a gut feeling
that al-Qaeda is about to attack the U.S. this summer. The administration
no longer claims to have secret intelligence. They just stand there and dare
Congress to subpoena their intestines.
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| User: "z" |
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| Title: Re: What color is Chertoff's gut? |
13 Jul 2007 10:52:08 AM |
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On Jul 12, 9:29 am, "Bruce Olin" <bruce_o...@hotmail.com> wrote:
"Harry Hope" <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:ju9c9352ndp3v1ov489n1nlpc1b1jchurr@4ax.com...
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| Does the president share the same "gutfeeling'' thatChertoffhas,
| White House press secretary Tony Snow was asked later.
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| "I don't want to try to get into gastrointestinal descriptions,'' Snow
| said.
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| From The Chicago Tribune, 7/11/07:
|http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/07/white_ho...
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| White House: No 'credible intelligence' of summer terrorism threat
| against the U.S.
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| by Mark Silva
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| For whatever "gutfeeling'' Homeland Security Secretary Michael
|Chertoffhas about a potential terrorist attack against the United
| States this summer, the White House said today that there is "no
| credible intelligence'' to support that fear.
|
| "There continues to be no credible intelligence to suggest that there
| is an imminent threat to the homeland,'' said Tony Fratto, deputy
| press secretary at the White House, a day afterChertofftold the
| editorial board of the Tribune of his "gutfeeling'' about a possible
| attack this summer.
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| ________________________________________________
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| Heckuva job,Chertoff
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| Harry
ARGUS HAMILTON - Thursday, July 12, 2007
Argus Hamilton
CNHI News Servicehttp://www.cushingdaily.com/editorials/local_story_19216=
5107.html
<snip>
Homeland Security chief MichaelChertoffsaid Tuesday he has agutfeeling
that al-Qaeda is about to attack the U.S. this summer. The administration
no longer claims to have secret intelligence. They just stand there and d=
are
Congress to subpoena their intestines.
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Meanwhile, while Chertoff was consulting his gut:
GAO sting nets license to get nuclear material
NRC did minimal background check
By Kathleen Day, Washington Post | July 12, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Undercover congressional investigators posing as West
Virginia businessmen obtained a license with almost no scrutiny from
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that enabled them to buy enough
radioactive material from US suppliers to build a "dirty bomb," a new
government report says.
The investigators obtained the license within 28 days from officials
at the NRC, the federal agency that in addition to regulating nuclear
power plants, oversees radioactive materials used in healthcare and
other industries, the report by the Government Accountability Office
said.
NRC officials approved the request with a minimal background check --
no face-to-face interview or a visit to the purported company to
ensure it existed and complied with safety rules, the report said.
Using a post office box at Mail Boxes Etc., a telephone, and a fax
machine, the undercover men from the GAO obtained the license "without
ever leaving their desks," the report said.
After counterfeiting copies of the license, the GAO undercover agents
ordered portable moisture-density gauges, which contain radioactive
americium-241 and cesium-137 and are commonly used at construction
sites to analyze the properties of soil, water, and pavement. The
investigators ordered 45 gauges -- enough to build a bomb with enough
radioactive material to qualify as a level 3 threat on the
International Atomic Energy Agency's scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the
most hazardous.
The GAO investigators never took possession of the radioactive
material, in part because they lacked the means to handle it safely.
But the report notes that, armed with an arsenal of phony licenses,
they could have secured contracts to buy much more than they did --
enabling them to make an even more lethal bomb.
"We altered the license so that it appeared our bogus company could
purchase an unrestricted quantity" of radioactive material, the report
said. A dirty bomb uses conventional explosives to cause immediate
injury to people nearby and creates a lasting threat by contaminating
a wider area with radioactive material.
The GAO undertook the sting at the request of Senator Norm Coleman,
Republican of Minnesota, the top minority member of the Senate
permanent subcommittee on investigations, which since 2003 has been
examining security gaps at the NRC and other federal agencies that
could leave the country vulnerable to biological or nuclear attack.
The report will be the subject of hearings today before the
subcommittee.
Edward McGaffigan Jr., NRC commissioner, said the agency, while
concerned about any security weakness, has had to allocate finite
resources to what it believes are the biggest potential threats to
public safety.
He said terrorists so far have looked for relatively simple ways to
cause massive death and damage.
Devices such as the moisture gauges, he said, pose a relatively low-
level risk because they require vast amounts of work to fashion into a
dangerous weapon.
=A9 Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
U=2ES. intel warns al-Qaida has rebuilt
By KATHERINE SHRADER and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writers
Thu Jul 12, 3:02 AM ET
U=2ES. intelligence analysts have concluded al-Qaida has rebuilt its
operating capability to a level not seen since just before the Sept.
11 terrorist attacks, The Associated Press has learned.
The conclusion suggests that the network that launched the most
devastating terror attack on the United States has been able to
regroup along the Afghan-Pakistani border despite nearly six years of
bombings, war and other tactics aimed at crippling it.
Still, numerous government officials say they know of no specific,
credible threat of a new attack on U.S. soil.
A counterterrorism official familiar with a five-page summary of the
new government threat assessment called it a stark appraisal to be
discussed at the White House on Thursday as part of a broader meeting
on an upcoming National Intelligence Estimate.
The official and others spoke on condition of anonymity because the
secret report remains classified.
Counterterrorism analysts produced the document, titled "Al-Qaida
better positioned to strike the West." The document focuses on the
terror group's safe haven in Pakistan and makes a range of
observations about the threat posed to the United States and its
allies, officials said.
Al-Qaida is "considerably operationally stronger than a year ago" and
has "regrouped to an extent not seen since 2001," the official said,
paraphrasing the report's conclusions. "They are showing greater and
greater ability to plan attacks in Europe and the United States."
The group also has created "the most robust training program since
2001, with an interest in using European operatives," the official
quoted the report as saying.
At the same time, this official said, the report speaks of
"significant gaps in intelligence" so U.S. authorities may be ignorant
of potential or planned attacks.
John Kringen, who heads the CIA's analysis directorate, echoed the
concerns about al-Qaida's resurgence during testimony and
conversations with reporters at a House Armed Services Committee
hearing on Wednesday.
"They seem to be fairly well settled into the safe haven and the
ungoverned spaces of Pakistan," Kringen testified. "We see more
training. We see more money. We see more communications. We see that
activity rising."
The threat assessment comes as the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies
prepare a National Intelligence Estimate focusing on threats to the
United States. A senior intelligence official, who spoke on condition
of anonymity while the high-level analysis was being finalized, said
the document has been in the works for roughly two years.
Kringen and aides to National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell
would not comment on the details of that analysis. "Preparation of the
estimate is not a response to any specific threat," McConnell's
spokesman Ross Feinstein said, adding that it would probably be ready
for distribution this summer.
Counterterrorism officials have been increasingly concerned about al-
Qaida's recent operations. This week, Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff said he had a "gut feeling" that the United States
faced a heightened risk of attack this summer.
Kringen said he wouldn't attach a summer time frame to the concern. In
studying the threat, he said he begins with the premise that al-Qaida
would consider attacking the U.S. a "home run hit" and that the
easiest way to get into the United States would be through Europe.
The new threat assessment puts particular focus on Pakistan, as did
Kringen.
"Sooner or later you have to quit permitting them to have a safe
haven" along the Afghan-Pakistani border, he told the House committee.
"At the end of the day, when we have had success, it is when you've
been able to get them worried about who was informing on them, get
them worried about who was coming after them."
Several European countries - among them Britain, Denmark, Germany and
the Netherlands - are also highlighted in the threat assessment partly
because they have arrangements with the Pakistani government that
allow their citizens easier access to Pakistan than others, according
to the counterterrorism official.
This is more troubling because all four are part of the U.S. visa
waiver program, and their citizens can enter the United States without
additional security scrutiny, the official said.
The report also notes that al-Qaida has increased its public
statements, although analysts stressed that those video and audio
messages aren't reliable indicators of the actions the group may
take.
The Bush administration has repeatedly cited al-Qaida as a key
justification for continuing the fight in Iraq.
"The No. 1 enemy in Iraq is al-Qaida," White House press secretary
Tony Snow said Wednesday. "Al-Qaida continues to be the chief
organizer of mayhem within Iraq, the chief organization for killing
innocent Iraqis."
The findings could bolster the president's hand at a moment when
support on Capitol Hill for the war is eroding and the administration
is struggling to defend its decision for a military buildup in Iraq. A
progress report that the White House is releasing to Congress this
week is expected to indicate scant progress on the political and
military benchmarks set for Iraq.
The threat assessment says that al-Qaida stepped up efforts to
"improve its core operational capability" in late 2004 but did not
succeed until December of 2006 after the Pakistani government signed a
peace agreement with tribal leaders that effectively removed
government military presence from the northwest frontier with
Afghanistan.
The agreement allows Taliban and al-Qaida operatives to move across
the border with impunity and establish and run training centers, the
report says, according to the official.
It also says that al-Qaida is particularly interested in building up
the numbers in its middle ranks, or operational positions, so there is
not as great a lag in attacks when such people are killed.
"Being No. 3 in al-Qaida is a bad job. We regularly get to the No. 3
person," Tom Fingar, the top U.S. intelligence analyst, told the House
panel.
The counterterror official said the report does not focus on al-Qaida
leader Osama bin Laden, his whereabouts or his role in the terrorist
network. Officials say al-Qaida has become more like a "family-
oriented" mob organization with leadership roles in cells and other
groups being handed from father to son, or cousin to uncle.
Yet bin Laden's whereabouts are still of great interest to
intelligence agencies. Although he has not been heard from for some
time, Kringen said officials believe he is still alive and living
under the protection of tribal leaders in the border area.
Armed Services Committee members expressed frustration that more was
not being done to get bin Laden and tamp down activity in the tribal
areas. The senior intelligence analysts tried to portray the
difficulty of operating in the area despite a $25 million bounty on
the head of bin Laden and his top deputy.
"They are in an environment that is more hostile to us than it is to
al-Qaida," Fingar said.
___
Associated Press writer Deb Riechmann contributed to this report.
Copyright =A9 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The
information contained in the AP News report may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written
authority of The Associated Press.
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| User: "A Veteran" |
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| Title: Re: What color is Chertoff's gut? |
12 Jul 2007 04:02:31 PM |
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In article <ju9c9352ndp3v1ov489n1nlpc1b1jchurr@4ax.com>,
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
Does the president share the same "gut feeling'' that Chertoff has,
White House press secretary Tony Snow was asked later.
"I don't want to try to get into gastrointestinal descriptions,'' Snow
said.
From The Chicago Tribune, 7/11/07:
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/07/white_house_no_cr
edbile_intell.html
White House: No 'credible intelligence' of summer terrorism threat
against the U.S.
by Mark Silva
For whatever "gut feeling'' Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff has about a potential terrorist attack against the United
States this summer, the White House said today that there is "no
credible intelligence'' to support that fear.
"There continues to be no credible intelligence to suggest that there
is an imminent threat to the homeland,'' said Tony Fratto, deputy
press secretary at the White House, a day after Chertoff told the
editorial board of the Tribune of his "gut feeling'' about a possible
attack this summer.
________________________________________________
Heckuva job, Chertoff
Harry
these "clowns" are doing one heck of a job.
they should be doing stand-up.....
in an unemployment line.
--
when you believe the only tool you have is a hammer.
All problems look like nails.
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12 Jul 2007 08:36:39 AM |
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In article <ju9c9352ndp3v1ov489n1nlpc1b1jchurr@4ax.com>, Harry Hope
<rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
Does the president share the same "gut feeling'' that Chertoff has,
White House press secretary Tony Snow was asked later.
"I don't want to try to get into gastrointestinal descriptions,'' Snow
said.
From The Chicago Tribune, 7/11/07:
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/07/white_house_no_cr
edbile_intell.html
White House: No 'credible intelligence' of summer terrorism threat
against the U.S.
by Mark Silva
For whatever "gut feeling'' Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff has about a potential terrorist attack against the United
States this summer, the White House said today that there is "no
credible intelligence'' to support that fear.
"There continues to be no credible intelligence to suggest that there
is an imminent threat to the homeland,'' said Tony Fratto, deputy
press secretary at the White House, a day after Chertoff told the
editorial board of the Tribune of his "gut feeling'' about a possible
attack this summer.
________________________________________________
Heckuva job, Chertoff
Harry
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Chertoff's Gut is full of (a) *****; (b) gas, or (c) both of the above.
""no credible intelligence" rates a solid (c).
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| User: "Tab" |
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12 Jul 2007 01:17:19 PM |
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On Jul 12, 9:36 am, Atropo <netp...@pochta.ru> wrote:
In article <ju9c9352ndp3v1ov489n1nlpc1b1jch...@4ax.com>, Harry Hope
<riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
Does the president share the same "gut feeling'' that Chertoff has,
White House press secretary Tony Snow was asked later.
"I don't want to try to get into gastrointestinal descriptions,'' Snow
said.
From The Chicago Tribune, 7/11/07:
http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/07/white_ho...
edbile_intell.html
White House: No 'credible intelligence' of summer terrorism threat
against the U.S.
by Mark Silva
For whatever "gut feeling'' Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff has about a potential terrorist attack against the United
States this summer, the White House said today that there is "no
credible intelligence'' to support that fear.
"There continues to be no credible intelligence to suggest that there
is an imminent threat to the homeland,'' said Tony Fratto, deputy
press secretary at the White House, a day after Chertoff told the
editorial board of the Tribune of his "gut feeling'' about a possible
attack this summer.
________________________________________________
Heckuva job, Chertoff
Harry
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Chertoff's Gut is full of (a) *****; (b) gas, or (c) both of the above.
""no credible intelligence" rates a solid (c).
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I go with D) His Head !
The way these Bushtraitors act (like Meat Doughnuts with legs) they
all must have their heads up their collective Asses!!!
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| User: "z" |
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| Title: Re: What color is Chertoff's gut? |
13 Jul 2007 10:46:37 AM |
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On Jul 12, 9:08 am, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
Does the president share the same "gutfeeling'' thatChertoffhas,
White House press secretary Tony Snow was asked later.
Whoa! Deja vu!
From: "Gandalf Grey"
Subject: Chertoff Planned to Further Gut FEMA in October
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005
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