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Someone explain why we have all of those terror threat levels if we don't use them?
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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Or perhaps, maybe, possibly, someone's trying to scare the crap out of me.
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It's too bad that there don't seem to be any responsible Republicans left with the heft to tell the White House to stop bending national security and foreign policy to political ends. This is from 'July Surprise' in tomorrow's The New Republic (via TPM):
- A third source, an official who works under ISI's director, Lieutenant General Ehsan ul-Haq, informed tnr that the Pakistanis "have been told at every level that apprehension or killing of HVTs [i.e., high-value al Qaida targets] before [the] election is [an] absolute must." What's more, this source claims that Bush administration officials have told their Pakistani counterparts they have a date in mind for announcing this achievement: "The last ten days of July deadline has been given repeatedly by visitors to Islamabad and during [ul-Haq's] meetings in Washington." Says McCormack: "I'm aware of no such comment." But according to this ISI official, a White House aide told ul-Haq last spring that "it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any] HVT were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July"--the first three days of the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 07-08-2004 at 12:19 PM..
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