CIA, FBI Warn Panel of Top Threats to U.S.

[cyberpj]

CIA, FBI Warn Panel of Top Threats to U.S.
2 minutes ago Top Stories - AP
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida and associated groups top the list of threats to the United States, leading government intelligence officials told Congress on Wednesday in a grim assessment that also highlighted Iran's emergence as a major threat to American interests in the Middle East.

Despite gains made against al-Qaida and other affiliates, CIA (news - web sites) Director Porter Goss, in an unusually blunt statement before the mostly secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, said the terror group is intent on finding ways to circumvent U.S. security enhancements to attack the homeland.

"It may be only a matter of time before al-Qaida or other groups attempt to use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons. We must focus on that," Goss said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20050216/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/intelligence_threats

[EC]

1. So we are in the same place we were in 2000?

So what has this President Idiot done for us, to make us safer?

[bif]

6. At least we punished Iraq for 9/11!

[EC]

13. And now have multiple jihads against us joining in

with Al Quada

[hootinholler]

16. No we are far worse off than 2000 nt

[TNOE]

2. This is the preparation for the next one

things are getting too hot and heavy for them, numbers are dropping, its time for another "terrorist" attack to get the people waving their flags and offering up their children - and then they will say = well we warned you - we tried.....

[saigon68]

3. It will get Drafty-- Very Quickly

And many brown and black humans will die after being burnt to a crisp.

[TNOE]

4. Yep - you are so right unfortunately

I predicted yesterday and the stories start flying today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3117881#3118531

[Warpy]

5. Yeah, probably, and they "know" that Iran is harboring the remains

of both the Taliban and Al Qaeda (never mind that they have repeatedly and publicly disdained, captured, tried, and executed members of both groups), so we'd better hit them before they hit us.

Oh, and by the way, here's that special skills draft. You don't have to worry.

First they came for the doctors and nurses
Then they came for the programmers...

[EC]

14. And who's missle was that this morning that struck in Iran?..n/t

[Redstone]

7. No problem. We'll just get them

before they get us.



You KNOW bushyboy and them are just itching to cut the Big Dogs loose.

God help us all if / when they do.

Redstone

[meganmonkey]

8. "circumvent U.S. security enhancements to attack the homeland"

Right - the enhancements like cutting border and customs agents :eyes:

And we have done oh-so-much to protect our water supply and our nuclear sites.

I guess they are going to have to figure out how to circimvent our incredibly vulnerable borders.

[durablend]

9. L*I*H*O*P n/t

[meganmonkey]

10. Y*E*P!!! n/t

[FreakinDJ]

11. Repeat of what Clinton told Bush

Before Bush blew it and allowed 911 to happen

[Shakespeare]

12. Well, it's nice to see Porter Goss is doing is job.

Totally partisan garbage, tailor-made to fit the PNAC agenda.

I so despise these fuckers.

[robertpaulsen]

15. Of course they'll never get to "the end of the trail" of A.Q. Khan.

Goss also said that the intelligence community has yet to get to the "end of the trail" of the nuclear black market run by disgraced Pakistani scientist, A.Q. Khan. Goss wouldn't rule out the possibility that organizations, rather than states, could obtain nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

No kidding. If they got to the end of the trail, that might expose Halliburton, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld to charges of treason.

Read my signature link for the whole story.

[underpants]

17. Is this just more historical information?

:eyes:

[HereSince1628]

18. Make us AFRAID make us demand USA PATRIOT Act renewal

Ok, I accept that AQ and a bunch of other bad guys want to hurt the US homeland.

But I also accept that there are a bunch of conservatives who are so terrorized by the threat that they are willing to sacrifice every freedom we enjoy in order that they not look bad when the next attack comes.

The best way to preserve freedom, is to live free or die trying.