Mr. Ridge said: “More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it. Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don’t necessarily put the country on (alert)… there were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said ‘for that?’”

Terrorism for political gain 101. Real? Fake? Beats the hell out of me but it smells like cod.

The Nexus of politics and terror - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com