Terror and Fear
Aug. 24th, 2006 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ennierdaFrom Countdown with Keith Olbermann:
Video is ten minutes long and reports on ten instances when the administration may have used terror alerts to distract the public from bad press. Some may be just coincidence, but others such as #10, are obviously planned.
In #10, officials receive what they describe as a credible threat against the NYC subway and increase security. They ask the media to sit on the story for three days, and when the official announcement comes, it just happens to coincide with Karl Rove being called before a grand jury.
This segment was rerun this week after the story broke that the recent airline plot was perhaps somewhat exaggerated. Why, no, politicians would never use something as serious as terrorism to get a bump in the polls or justify programs that are one by one being ruled as unconstitutional.
I would not be surprised if the terror alert gets raised a week or so before elections. Then again, it might look TOO suspicious if that happened. Maybe a month, then.
Video is ten minutes long and reports on ten instances when the administration may have used terror alerts to distract the public from bad press. Some may be just coincidence, but others such as #10, are obviously planned.
In #10, officials receive what they describe as a credible threat against the NYC subway and increase security. They ask the media to sit on the story for three days, and when the official announcement comes, it just happens to coincide with Karl Rove being called before a grand jury.
This segment was rerun this week after the story broke that the recent airline plot was perhaps somewhat exaggerated. Why, no, politicians would never use something as serious as terrorism to get a bump in the polls or justify programs that are one by one being ruled as unconstitutional.
I would not be surprised if the terror alert gets raised a week or so before elections. Then again, it might look TOO suspicious if that happened. Maybe a month, then.
