WSJ.com - U.S. Cites Signals Al Qaeda Plans To Upset Elections

WSJ.com - U.S. Cites Signals Al Qaeda Plans To Upset Elections "Ridge drowned out campaigning with an election terror warning. He offered no specifics and declined to raise the alert level but cited worries about convention safety.
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The announcement, which followed three days of briefings to members of Congress and the White House on the threat assessments, comes just before what is expected to be a barrage of critical reports about the U.S. intelligence community's lack of coordination and failure to react to warnings before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."

I guess I could claim this is as much about information management as it is politics...