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F.B.I. Issues and Retracts Urgent Terrorism Bulletin

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1144253/posts

WASHINGTON, May 28 - The F.B.I. issued an urgent bulletin to several cities on Friday that warned of the prospect of an imminent terrorist attack but retracted the alert hours later, after the intelligence proved unfounded, officials said.

The alert went to law enforcement officials in two or three cities to warn of intelligence that indicated the prospect of an attack in the next 24 hours, officials said. Officials would not give the names of the cities.

A federal official in New York, when asked about the warning, said he was unaware of the city's having received any such notification.

A law enforcement official at another city, who insisted that he and the city not be named, said authorities there had received a call late in the day from the Federal Bureau of Investigation with an alert on the possibility of an "imminent" attack there. Later, the FBI called to withdraw the warning. The official, citing questions about the credibility of the terrorist intelligence from the bureau, said, "It's getting harder and harder to defend them."

The bureau said that "given the potential imminence of the threat," it contacted the officials immediately, even as the reliability of the threat intelligence was being investigated. Further analysis found that "the original interpretation of imminence was unfounded" and that the potential target was probably outside the United States, the bureau said.

Some law enforcement officials described the alert as a draft, not to be disseminated. Other officials defended releasing the information.

"This was a threat that was serious and it was of concern," a senior law enforcement official said. "There was a simultaneous effort to vet the information and disseminate it to the proper people. You like to have the luxury of time, but sometimes you just don't."

These mixed signals are absolutely ridiculous and the retractions are absolutely political. The Dem moles, oops, career federal employees just wait for things like this to happen so they can leak it as a "dirty campaign trick".
Example: Homeland Security could have kept quite, Justice could have come back after the week and said our info was based on point A, point B, point C. We understand it's an inconvience but we want to keep our citizens safe, credible threats, etc.
Now, along with the statements and retractions, you have this infighting that was supposed to have stopped with homeland security.