Puppets on a String?

Mighty suspicious, this current ramping up of the terrorist threat on certain financial institutions in New York, Washington, and Newark (NEWARK?) ... based on, according to the New York Times, intel that's fully THREE YEARS OLD!

"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....

"Federal authorities said on Monday that they had uncovered no evidence that any of the surveillance activities described in the documents was currently under way. They said officials in New Jersey had been mistaken in saying on Sunday that some suspects had been found with blueprints and may have recently practiced 'test runs'' aimed at the Prudential building in Newark."

Not that the Rovians would EVER use the terrorist threat as political manipulation, right? It would be practically treasonous to even suggest that, right? Assinine, at the very least!

Proof of how trumped up and phony all this high alert at certain banking institutions in New York City is El Presidente's dispatching of Laura and The Twins to cheer on the brave bankers who showed up for work. Safe photo-ops for the Age of Terrorism (or terrorism as it's practiced during a reelection campaign) -- send the wife and kids out to the building you think is about to be blown up! Ri-i-i-ight!