Intelligence Estimate on Terrorism Released

[Tom Odom]

Tom, I clearly understand its a sanitized version - that is what I meant by public release. However, my point is that this is so "sanitized" as to be meaningless. (unless the classified version is just as banal). Better analysis of the current situation vis-a-vis the terrorist threat is readily available to anyone with an internet connection. The public deserves better.

The "gut feeling" remarks were truly unplanned, and were followed by creation and distro of "talking points" on those remarks to DHS personnel as a knee-jerk CYA after the public reaction. None of which inspires any confidence in DHS. This administration has lost much of its credibility even among its previously strong supporters, and it continues to stubbornly eat away at its own standing by hewing to positions that lack substance and treating the public as booger-eating morons.

Jedburgh,

No disagreement whatsoever. I was getting at what you put in parentheses--that hopefuly the classified version is better because this version is bird cage material.

On gut feelings, Pepto-Bismal would have been a better fix. The public does indeed deserve better.

Best

Tom

PS Cartoonist Jim Morin said it best