[Strategerist]

1) Oviously the bomb squad was blowing up suspicious items that turned out not to be bombs, but the RUMINT that the press was relying on either was twisted around in transmit, or the press didn't understand, and that was the source of the false reports.

2) Or it's evidence of an elaborate conspiracy. I happen to have more than one functioning brain cell, so I vote 1).

People constantly talk about how the press is incompetent here, but when the press botches early information in a breaking story, I don't understand how that's never blamed on press incompetence.

[no-to-illegals]

sorry FRiend, have some other thoughts.

[don-o]

That’s a good point. There’s a rush to be first - accuracy is always going to be a casualty

[Toespi]

Lets not be stupid. They were very precise yesterday concerning the additional bombs. Five unexploded devices found that did not explode.

[Toespi]

Here you go......and this us why anything these people say is suspect.

In explaining why President Obama didn’t call the Boston bombings a “terrorist attack,” former adviser David Axelrod said, “I’m sure what was going through the president’s mind is — we really don’t know who did this — it was tax day”: