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October 06, 2005

Thanks, Jamie

Did you catch it?

An early version of this story stated that:

According to sources in intelligence, emergency services and police headquarters, when three Iraqi insurgents were arrested several days ago during a raid by a joint FBI-CIA team, one of those caught disclosed the threat.

A newer version of the exact same article states:

According to sources in intelligence, emergency services and police headquarters, the intelligence community developed information that the threat may have involved pharmacists from Iraq coming to New York for some kind of chemical attack targeting the subways.

Three insurgents, one or more of whom are pharmacists, were arrested during a raid by a U.S. military and intelligence community team, sources said, and one of those caught disclosed the threat. Because it slipped out during the arrest, the plot was deemed credible.

A joint task force of the FBI and CIA caught the terrorists. Working together.

It makes you wonder what these joint agency teams might have prevented if it wasn't for Jamie Gorelick's "wall of separation," which prevented these agencies from working together to thwart terrorist attacks in the past.

Update: Jason Smith at Generation Why? noticed the disappearing CIA-FBI jointstrike team as well in his second update to this post. Could someone at ABC News have been worrying about how this story reflects on Gorelick?

This bears further discussion.

Posted by Confederate Yankee at October 6, 2005 08:11 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Terrific piece. I hope you cached the first excerpt because your link doesn't work. They must have disappeared it.

Posted by: The Anchoress at October 6, 2005 08:57 PM

Doh! The ABC story is still there, the link was just mis-typed. Fixed.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at October 6, 2005 09:01 PM