Threat level interesting.

[esskreemr]

Current threat level is "elevated"

The day after the Democratic National Convention a 4 year old information warrants an elevation in the threat advisory level to "orange" or to "high" threat.

A "new" tape from Bin Laden the week before the election doesn't...

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?theme=29

Makes me feel safer that there is no political agenda attached to the Dept of Homeland Security.

[Inquartata]

Walter Cronkite on "Larry King Live" the other night:

KING: OK, Walter. What do you make of this ( latest Bin Laden tape)?

CRONKITE: Well, I make it out to be initially the reaction that it's a threat to us, that unless we make peace with him, in a sense, we can expect further attacks. He did not say that precisely, but it sounds like that when he says...

KING: The warning.

CRONKITE: What we just heard. So now the question is basically right now, how will this affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing. The advantage to the Republican side is to get rid of, as a principal subject of the campaigns right now, get rid of the whole problem of the al Qaqaa explosive dump. Right now, that, the last couple of days, has, I think, upset the Republican campaign.

Sorry, looks like you have a long way to go in the conspiracy-theory game if you want to compete with loons like "the most respected man in America"...