When it was revealed that the al Qaeda intel Homeland Security received was four years old, don't you just know in the depths of your heart that Tom Ridge mumbled, "Oh, shit"? C'mon, you know he did.
AP: U.S. Struggles to Grasp Scope of Threat
WASHINGTON - The government is no closer to understanding some important details about possible terror plots against American financial institutions, intelligence and law enforcement officials acknowledge.
Investigators are poring over the trove of documents and photographs that led to this week's urgent warnings from the Homeland Security Department. But intelligence agencies have been unable to reach a consensus on whether the unusually detailed documents recovered in Pakistan reflect a defunct terror plot or one that might have been successfully interrupted.
USA Today: Officials don't see attack as imminent
WASHINGTON - The U.S. financial institutions identified in a recently disclosed al-Qaeda surveillance operation are not believed to be at imminent risk of attack, two federal law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation said Tuesday.
