[link|http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3336148|ABC News] (via Drudge):

July 1, 2007

A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.

"This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001," the official told ABCNews.com.

U.S. officials have kept the information secret, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said today on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that the United States did not have "have any specific credible evidence that there's an attack focused on the United States at this point."

As ABCNews.com reported, U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of terror attacks in Glasgow and Prague, the Czech Republic, against "airport infrastructure and aircraft."

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Emphasis added.

One expects reports like this after a major incident, but there may be more substance than usual in this case. Chertoff's response doesn't give me much comfort - it sounds too much like Rice's denials during her congressional hearings. Do they plan to only raise patrol levels, etc., when they know the date, time, target, vehicle, and passport numbers of the bombers? How much "specific credible evidence" do they need or expect?

Why did that government official feel it was necessary to leak the information? Is Chertoff messing up in this area of "homeland security" as he did with New Orleans?

:-/

Cheers,
Scott.