Looks like there are more doubts being raised about the terror alert issued over the weekend:
Suspect in New Terror Alerts Fed U.S. False Info in 2002
By Staff and Wire Reports
Aug 4, 2004, 18:15
An imprisoned terror suspect that the Bush administration says provided "vital" information that led to increased alerts in Washington, New York and New Jersey is the same suspect who provided false information that led to false alerts in 2002, angry intelligence officials say.
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Capitol Hill Blue has learned the terror suspect is Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaida honcho captured in Pakistan in March, 2002. At that time, Zubaydah claimed suicide bomb attacks against the same financial institutions were imminent and U.S. officials responded by raising the terror alert status only to lower it a short time later and admit Zubaydah's information was "questionable."
"Old information isn't irrelevant information - particularly with this kind of enemy," Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn.
"Horseshit," muttered a DHS agent who, for obvious reasons, asked that his name be withheld. "We're chasing ghosts and we're chasing our tails. How many times must this clown lead us around by the nose before we learn we have been made fools of once again?"
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4972.shtml
CHB has consistently sourced anonymous officials in the Department of Homeland Security. While their reporting has been derided before, it has a better record for accuracy that Matt Drudge.