[sit-rep]

Possibly to sway Congressional opinion??... maybe??

[FairOpinion]

Possibly because it's true?

I do think that the truth is at least a few orders of magnitude worse than what we are being told, a few snippets from here and there occasionally let us see the tip of the iceberg.

From some of these "snippets", I think that the US government doesn't just "think", but knows beyond a shadow of doubt that Al Qaeda has one or more radiological bombs and lethal nerve gas. The only question is not whether they have it, but whether and when they will use them.