[I_love_weather]

Why isn't the US talking about this?


If I am reading this article correctly it sounds like they arrested the terrorists? The planes were already loaded with explosives?

[HiJinx]

You read right. Why isn't the US talking about it?

Don't know, but here's some speculation. We don't talk about what we know from the intel community. Jimmy Carter did it with satellite imagery once, and the community has never forgiven him for it.

We do share some things with our foreign allies. Although we expect them to be circumspect in their use of US Intelligence reports, we cannot force them to be so. It's quite possible somebody felt the need for average citizens to know what we had stopped outweighed the need to keep the intel sources secret.

Mind you, this is merely speculation on my part and in no way is it to be construed as an official position...

[orlop9]

Why isn't the US talking about this?

They are, just not to the media

[ladyinred]

They aren't going to announce everything they know for security reasons. There is no telling how much is known. I understand why it is not told to us while we are investigating. They want to catch as many of them as they can.