The National Security Apparatus issued a terrorist alert requiring Middle East embassies to close today. In a very public fashion this was broadcast all over today's talk shows as well as other outlets. Anchors discussed it breathlessly in alarmed tones.
U.S. embassies in a slew of Muslim countries will close on Sunday due to a credible and serious security threat.
The embassies will close in response to "a specific threat against a U.S. embassy or consulate," according to a senior U.S. official, who called it a "concerted effort" to target an embassy or consulate in a Muslim country.
"We just don't know which one," the official told ABC News.
"There could be other targets, not just embassies," another U.S. official said. The threat is considered to be throughout the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
You would think they would want to keep it quiet so as not to alert the terrorists that we know, and since it is focused on the Middle East why alarm Americans unnecessarily?
Well how else would we know that our SMIC is doing its job and we need this?
"These programs are controversial, we understand that," Chambliss said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "But they are also very important… If we did not have these programs, then we simply would not be able to listen in on the bad guys."
Based on information about a possible al Qaeda plot, the State Department closed more than 20 diplomatic posts and issued a worldwide travel alert on Friday. Top administration officials met late Saturday to discuss the threat.
Chambliss, who has access to classified information as a member of the Intelligence Committee, said that the NSA learned of the plot by using its authority under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to intercept communications between suspected terrorists.
So America, now that you know we are spying on you which you weren't supposed to know but Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald and all that so now you do, here is a reason why we have to do it and be assured that there really is a threat and you really are being protected and you wouldn't have been without all this security apparatus spying - on you.
