[ARCADIA]

MSNBC said they had been meeting behind closed doors for 72 hours before the announcement today.

This could simply mean they were arguing about it. That not everyone felt the terror alert needed to be raised.

[cajungirl]

maybe there weren't those who didn't want the alert heightened to orange. But they may have wanted it all the way up to red. I hope you are right but fear you are wrong.

[relee]

This could simply mean they were arguing about it. That not everyone felt the terror alert needed to be raised.

OR

Unlike past elevations of the terror threat level, the decision to raise the alert to orange this time was unanimous and decisive, because it was based on what senior Bush administration officials described as the most alarming, credible and specific information they had ever seen.

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