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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-02-07 10:26 PM
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There's irresponsibility. There's demagoguery. And then there's Trent Lott.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003851.php



Lott: Get Out of D.C. While You Still Can
By Spencer Ackerman - August 2, 2007, 5:41 PM


It turns out the Capitol Police have bolstered security around the U.S. Capitol after a recent al-Qaeda communique threatened an attack on Washington. Lott, according to Roll Call (sub.req.), responded with characteristic gravitas. In light of the heightened threat, Congress can either amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or all of us can run screaming into the inferno.

Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) ominously advised Thursday that Congress needed to pass changes to terrorist surveillance laws before leaving for the August recess and warned that otherwise “the disaster could be on our doorstep.”
Further demonstrating his counterterrorism sagacity, when asked if people should leave Washington, D.C., during the month of August, Lott replied that "I think it would be good to leave town in August, and it would probably be good to stay out until September the 12th." By contrast, a former Capitol Hill chief had the temerity to note that, according to U.S. intelligence analysis he'd been privvy to, "Americans tend to be much more oriented toward anniversaries and the jihadists seem to be less so. I've seen over the years where we concentrate on dates and the analysts say, 'Don’t get wrapped up in dates because our terrorist jihadist enemies bide their time.'"

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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-02-07 10:43 PM
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1. they're telegraphing their own false flag operation.
we ignore the warning at our own peril. This cinches that there will be a fake terror attack while congress is on recess.
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Prophet 451 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-02-07 10:46 PM
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2. I'm thing that too
...and with W's emergency powers stuff in place, you know what that would lead to...
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Hieronymus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-02-07 10:58 PM
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3. You think Trent and George practice their old cheerleader routines?
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