For Those Of You Who Were Wondering About The NEW Terror Alert...

[kpete]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/03/1228394/-Animal-Nuz-160

[Purveyor]

1. All the more reason to justify the expanding surveillance of US citizens. I don't believe in

coincidences.

False-flag intercept pending...all due to the excellent eavesdropping efforts of the NSA, we will be told.

Mark my words.

[JaneyVee]

2. This isn't the first time warnings were issued for American travelers.

[morningfog]

3. This isn't the first time the US government has stood to benefit from such

a warning or distraction.

[JaneyVee]

6. I recall 3 such warnings last year with no benefit to the US Govt.

It's just to warn Americans traveling overseas.

[morningfog]

7. Links?

[JaneyVee]

10. There's been over 100 just this year alone.

https://oia.stanford.edu/aggregator/sources/2

[Purveyor]

11. Links to the ones that have dominated every top of the show/hour radio/tv newscasts for the last

two days?

[JaneyVee]

13. Same as it ever was. Media just pounced on it. These warnings are common place.

The reason it is being announced is because when traveling overseas you usually register at the US embassy so they can keep a count of Americans they may need to assist in case of emergency. So they are letting travelers know these embassies will be closed.

[Purveyor]

14. No, not the 'same as it ever was'. We haven't seen the likes of this 'media hype' for quite

awhile...

[morningfog]

12. I looked at a few of those and they are not the same.

Those are state specific and specific to conditions in a country.

The few I panned through were not so broad and ill defined as the current one. Probably why few heard if the others.

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. Ya just can't make this shit up, can ya? I'm with you... we'll be told the NSA's heroic actions

kept us safe and we should be thankful, sit the fuck down, and shut the fuck up about vacuum cleaner type surveillance.

The terror threat prompting the U.S. government to close nearly two dozen embassies and consulates Sunday is the most specific, credible threat information in years, CBS News senior correspondent John Miller reports.


Intelligence officers have reporting from a reliable source that a major plot is under way and that the team to carry it out has been selected and is in place, Miller reports.


The threat information has been described as the most specific and credible since the foiled plot to blow up British planes en route to the United States in 2006, Miller reports. The specificity ends there.


What authorities don't have is the date, the timing or the target of the attack, which is why they have taken such an approach to warning potential targets, Miller reports.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57596882/source-terrorists-behind-embassy-threat-in-place/

Isn't it funny that "the most specific and credible" information we've had in YEARS lacks when, where, or what?

[niyad]

16. uh, um, what???? I'm sorry, agent mikey, were you saying something?

[treestar]

9. how about the fallacy of post hoc, ergo propter hoc?

How about paranoid levels of CT. Sometimes a warning is just a warning.

The middle east is subject to terror attack, at a greater rate than the US is. There are real terrorists there. I wouldn't be so comfortable just always dismissing it if I were you.

[Number23]

5. K&R The responses from posters who obviously couldn't be bothered to read the cartoon

are almost as funny as the cartoon itself.

These folks have their responses typed out in their heads before they even know what the topic is. Hilarious.

[treestar]

8. that's a valid alert!

has been going on for some time, too.

[reusrename]

15. Sweet!

Actually genious.