Terror Threat Appears to Be All Talk
by James Buchanan
A few Americans have marveled at the timing of an announcement about a major terror attack, just a day after the biggest supporter of Bush’s Iraq War in the Democrat party, Joe Lieberman, was decisively defeated in his primary. Curiously a news article in the Seattle PI reports “When Vice President Cheney went out of his way Wednesday to blast Democrats as weak on terrorism, he knew something that few Americans knew: Another stark reminder of the dangers of terrorism was about to hit the headlines. The White House confirmed Thursday that senior administration officials have been aware since at least last weekend that British authorities were moving toward arrests in an alleged terrorism plot. Some of these top officials worked in concert with the Republican National Committee to blast Democrats after Tuesday’s primary defeat of Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, a supporter of President Bush’s Iraqi war strategy.”
So they’re admitting that the top neocons knew about this terror plot at least one week in advance —so the timing of the announcement was carefully selected to drown out the news about the primary defeat of a key neocon ally of Bush, Joe Lieberman. (more…)