On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:38:35 EST, "Richard M. Smith" said: > Homeland Security said it had no evidence to corroborate the threat but had > issued the warning out of an "abundance of caution". The department said in > a statement that the threat was for all of December.
Move along, nothing to see... > "There is no information to corroborate this aspirational threat. As a > routine matter and out of an abundance of caution, US-CERT issued the > situational awareness report to industry stakeholders," said Homeland > Security spokesman Russ Knocke. Geez, some terrorist in a cave says "Gee, I wish we could crash the computers on Wall Street", and we get in a tizzy. What would have happened if the guy had said "Gee, I wish we could poison the entire US supply of Hanes underwear with flesh-eating bacteria"?
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