Punk'd

Last Thursday, the front-page headlines were Miers and Rove until the alert about the NYC subway system. That story was held for days until it was released, oddly on the same day that the President made a big speech about terror. DHS questioned the source of the information at the time, but surely the government knew that giving the alert to a NYC Mayor in the midst of an election campaign would force him to release it to the public.

Turns out it was bogus. I know, it's crazy, Iraqis and Afghanis with baby carriages sounded so real.

This whole case reveals something even more dangerous about the still-broken state of the US intelligence community. CIA and the Pentagon obtained this intel and pushed it upstairs, and DHS and the FBI openly questioned it. Sound like a turf war to you? It's amazing that this kind of crap is still going on 4 years after 9/11. And you never heard a peep from the supposed National Intelligence Director, John Negroponte, who is supposed to aggregate all of this information and make it so that these turf wars would not continue.

Seems to me we've had ample time to work out these kinks.

UPDATE: This is funny as shit.