It stopped at Cheney's desk. Just like all the important papers do. No need to pass them along.

Hey, if we prevent all easily thwarted acts of violence by kooks, how will we justify massive expenditures, huge power grabs, and future land wars in Asia to the American people?

Yes this news report is very disturbing. Our British allies are second-guessing and ignoring American intelligence reports. An alliance has to be built on trust. Clearly the British are not trustworthy allies.

I understand the "noise" level is probably deafening when it comes to possible imminent terrorist attacks and rumours and such. But how many times are we going to hear or read the headline "U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of terror attacks" after the fact? It is the ultimate "I told you so" response; indefensible and of course always 100% correct. No offense guys but if this information is always available before the attacks, be it in London or Glasgow or NYC or friggin' Patterson, NJ then why do these attacks happen in the first place.

I'm sorry but if Homeland Security or the CIA or the FBI takes credit AFTER THE FACT for another attack again I swear I'm going to vote Democrat in the next election (note: likelihood of voting Democrat in the next election 100%)

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Aw, stopping attacks with law enforcement is no fun; better, as Joe Lieberman says, to wiretap the shit out of everyone. And we'd all be a lot safer if we'd just give up all our civil liberties to the Bush Administration *now* instead of *making* them *prove* that they encourage terrorism.

Grammar note: while that's an *ambiguous* pronoun antecedent, it's *not* an unclear one - by which I mean, it happens to apply both ways. (god, those are convenient)

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But Clinton!

As long as a Republican is in the WH…. Freedom Fighter at 11:09 AM

No one could possibly have foreseen that a warning of terror attacks in Glasgow and Prague, the Czech Republic, against "airport infrastructure and aircraft" would have involved a car....

BushCo ignored threats to the US. Why would they care about the UK?

As Steve martin said: I forgot.

Well, Gordon Brown is supposed to represent a change from Tony Blair, so that must mean he's a Democrat, or like whatever a Democrat is over there. And there's no point in giving aid to the enemy, right? Ergo...

Since W is already an emperor, why would he need to justify anything?

He's made it clear that he believes he "doesn't have to explain himself to anyone because he's the President," as he told Bob Woodward, but even self-proclaimed emperors have to make their case and give a reason for what they do to keep the rabble in line and protect the careers of the party members.

You don't understand much about political maneuvering, do you?

FF and mhr, you are both badly in need of some new material. This dishonest vitriol of "liberal Islamist cheerleading" is rancid. It reflects poorly on you.

A lot of assumptions are being made here.

First of all, that the intelligence was "solid." We don't know what level of reliability it was.

Second, that the problem was on the transmitting end, not the receiving one. While it's possible that somebody dropped the ball on the American end as far as warnings go, it's also understandable that Glasgow officials might be reluctant to think that some clerk in their offices might have decided to ignore an American intelligence report.

After all, dismissing American intelligence has become popular lately. Many Americans routinely sneer at U.S. intelligence warnings of possible terror activity or other threats, claiming that it's all politically motivated and that the terrorists are incompetent and harmless anyway. Why wouldn't others?

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maybe DHS knew these clowns didn't know what they were doing, probably wouldn't hurt a lot of people, and a failed plot would remind the bedwetters who the daddy party is. win-win.

"and a failed plot would remind the bedwetters who the daddy party is."

Does the 28% really need that much reminding? Wow.

Does the 28% really need that much reminding? Wow.

How often does a dog need its training reinforced?

Is Freedom Fighter just posting "Sufficiently Annoyed" over and over to show other people to stop being annoying or their posts will be be deleted, or is it the result of the admin modifying his posts instead of deleting them? It's not clear.

[To answer your question, I am replacing their feedback loop with a link to Kevin's moderating policy, which is, if he or we get sufficiently annoyed the post will be deleted. Leaving the link where the comment was reduces the confusion when the trolls have been responded to.]

Freedom Fighter & mhr are ALWAYS posting the same things over & over -- whiny refrains about Clinton & liberals, as if a uniformly Republican government marching in lockstep has absolutely nothing to do with one failed war, another failing war, and global resentment of American policies. It's the monitors -- and the rest of us -- who were sufficiently annoyed with them.

I love sucking George W. Bush's dick!

f.f......tell us something we don't know....

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George Carlin