Miscommunication cited in port alert (Port of Miami)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/7/07 | Kelli Kennedy - ap

[La Enchiladita]

Me too.

;^)

[Chena]

"Miscommunication"? Yea, right. I don't like wearing tinfoil hats so I'll just say that I have some hugh and series doubts about this story. Something smells fishy here. (This is my 2nd understatement of the new year.)

[Bubbette]

I heard on FNC tonight that one of the men had the same name as one on the terror watch lists. Probing security and testing to see if anyone is paying attention??

[stylin19a]

thanks..interesting..hadn't thought of that.
I was being sarcastic in my post.

[BohDaThone]

This whole incident could (I say could) be a case study about news media, news sources, and ultimate truth. After reading all of our threads, and a lot of the linked coverage (as well as a good bit of "I heard someone say on TV"), we have completely contradictory statements on:
Nothing in truck; 55-gallon drums in truck; regular industrial shipment in truck

No paperwork; wrong paperwork; paperwork that says exactly what truck has;

driver/passengers are legal; illegal; criminal background, no criminal background; not on watch list; name same as on watch list.

In many/most cases, when we don't like what the media is reporting, we know that they screw things up mightily, by malice and/or stupidity.

But, when they report what some of us would like to believe, why do we think they automatically become completely correct and brilliant.

It seems to me that a version of the old Reagan line, "trust but verify" is best on these events. If you didn't see it with your "own lying eyes," take all immediate breaking news reports and reports of news reports with a big grain of salt. Speculate, but realize that the speculation may be based on completely false versions of facts.

Then, at some point, somebody should go back and try to find out why the media said what they did -- who their unnamed sources are -- did they exist, and what do THEY say they said at the time. You can't just assume that everything is "being covered up," but neither can you assume that the media is right on Day 2, rather than Day 1. It is a puzzlement.