Only a democrat could make hay out of an announcement that a terrorist attack had been averted.
It was all in the 9-11 Commission Report, Tony.
stepping back in time...TIMES ONLINE.co.uk: "FOCUS: THE CONFESSIONS OF KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED" by Christina Lamb in Chicago (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Sears Tower in Chicago and Library Tower in Los Angeles -- which was 'blown up' in the film Independence Day -- were both potential targets, according to transcripts of interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Al-Qaeda operations chief. "We were looking for symbols of economic might," he told his captors. He recounted sitting looking at the books with Ramzi Yusuf, his nephew by marriage, who was the man behind the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. In that attack Yusuf succeeded only in ripping a crater into the foundations with a van bomb. “We knew from that experience that explosives could be problematic,” said Mohammed, “so we started thinking about using planes.”) (March 28, 2004)