[link|http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=35060|Security through denial]

Excerpt:

NEW YORK - Sen. John F. Kerry told an interviewer he had been too
busy to receive a national security briefing on the threat of an
imminent terrorist attack on the United States, and then went to a
celebrity-packed fund-raising concert at Radio City Music Hall.

In an appearance on CNN's ``Larry King Live'' on Thursday night,
Kerry was asked about the warning, earlier that day, that al-Qaeda was
planning a large-scale attack on the United States to disrupt the
upcoming political conventions and the election.

King asked Kerry for his reaction, and he replied, ``Well, I
haven't been briefed yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me. I just
haven't had time.''

A few hours later, he attended the star-studded fund-raiser.

I say:

If it had been a star-studded security briefing, would he have made
the time?

Meanwhile, in the real world:

[link|http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=1638&u_sid=1159618|An Islamist sniper caught on I-80]

[link|http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,128193,00.html|A terror cell busted up in Albany]

...but don't tell Kerry. He doesn't want to know.


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