[Culture] Manipulating the Bullshit Alerts

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Did Tommy Ridge strike fear into your heart when, on Sunday night, just after the Democratic Convention, he announced imminent attacks on the Stock Exchange? Gee, turns out his info was three or four years old. STOP THE BULLSHIT! SEND BUSH BACK TO THE RANCH!   Reports That Led to Terror Alert Were Years Old, Officials Say By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID JOHNSTON Published: August 3, 2004 ASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terrorist plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/03intel.html?th       Ross Bender http://rossbender.org