Posted on 07/09/2004 9:12:26 PM PDT by FairOpinion
SPEARFISH -- Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said Thursday that he was very concerned about homeland security issues in the face of what he called the most sobering terror report he had heard recently.
The United States is tightening security in the face of a steady stream of intelligence indicating an attack aimed at disrupting elections, the White House said Thursday.
The Department of Homeland Security is addressing the threat and has efforts underway to ''ramp up security,'' White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Thursday.
"It is absolutely essential for the U.S. Senate to turn its attention to what we can do to make America safe," Daschle said.
Of particular concern are the nation's borders and ports, Daschle said, and there are security issues unresolved as the homeland security appropriations are "hung up" in the Senate.
Asked if the timing of the terror concerns might be aimed at stealing political thunder from the announcement of John Edwards as the democratic vice presidential candidate, Daschle replied, "The report is so sobering and so serious that I cannot bring myself to believe anyone in this administration would use this for political purposes."
Daschle said the most recent terror briefing was the second this week and contained information that there is a higher threat than there has been at any time since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Believe me, they are. I think I mentioned this, before, but a while back I was working a temp job when I was in a doctors office and heard what he was listening to on the radio. I don't know what the radio show was, but the people there were talking about the attacks in Madrid, and were HOPING that something similar would happen here, as well. That after the terrorist attacks in Madrid, that the Spanish "got the message", voting out the conservatives, and voting in the socialists. Likewise, these folks on the radio were hoping for another terrorist attack (Albeit not a large one. Yeah, they're so kind, so that the American people would also "get the message" and vote out Bush, and vote in Kerry. Utter scum.
I just left a dinner where a friend of mine returned last week from Disney World and she saw a middle eastern type man alone standing near the Monorail and studying the track really intently and checking it all out. Her husband and she got on and lost site of the guy. I told her she should have reported him.
Then, if not dirty bombs....What? There were, if you recall, lots of Arabs seen taking lots of pics, all over the U.S. I remember a long time ago at the Hoover Dam, too. And of course, we remember all the Arabs at small plane air training schools.....etc.
Exactly what I thought.
"He wants to be president, and can't find time to at least learn about the most serious threats our nation is facing."
Pretty revealing isn't it?
Just blow up a lot of everyday folks all over the country, like Madrid. Why make the job harder by going after heavily protected sites...they'll take what we give them, the easy stuff.
Why didn't she? During WW II...everyone would have reporteed such actions and we never had anything like 9/11,during that wat.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has canceled a planned visit to Israel next week, Israel Radio reported Friday. Ridge has warned that Al-Qaida may attempt an election time attack in the United States, and officials in Washington said that he prefers not to leave the country at such a sensitive time, according to the radio.
All I get is 'imminent' from this, too.
hey, sweetliberty....only a matter of time, of course, before we be on the same thread, lol! Hope all is well with you.
Or Patrick Leahy hasn't seen it yet...
And anything that does happen here before the election is absolutely Spain's doing. The whole world is now up for grabs, thanks to the stinking Socialists.
My sister is in Lafayette, LA and is a manager of a storage place and she had an incident where a muslim man tried to rent a big moving truck and was insistent that it he needed it on the 4th, she did not have one available and she said for some reason even if she did she would not have rented it out. She said it just made her uneasy and she wasn't going to take any chances. It isn't like her either to over react.
I guess there was no one around to tell at the time and she said she lost site of him when they got on the monorail. She realized in hind site she should have told someone
I am sure they were just tourists taking pictures. : >) I believe we gave these thugs back to Iran.
Well, I'm confused; who briefed them, the CIA?
Do they believe the CIA, or is it still a bunch of liars and bums?
Amazing.
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