stephanie
12-11-2008, 11:41 PM
:wtf:
By Alex Kingsbury
Posted December 3, 2008
After a series of dire new warnings about possible terrorist threats—capped by a government commission's report that terrorists are likely to stage a biological or nuclear attack somewhere in the world during the next five years—some experts are urging officials "to retire the fear card," as California Rep. Jane Harman puts it.
Former Sen. Bob Graham (R) joins with Sen. Jim Talent and others of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism for a press conference.
"We need to educate and inform the American people, not terrify them with alarming details about possible threats to the homeland," she said, reacting to the 132-page report from the Commission for the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism released this week.
Harman, who heads the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment, added, "It's time for the rhetoric about that threat to calm, instead of inflame, an anxious public."
read the rest..
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/12/03/slew-of-warnings-on-nuclear-biological-terrorism-prompt-worries-of-fearmongering_print.htm
By Alex Kingsbury
Posted December 3, 2008
After a series of dire new warnings about possible terrorist threats—capped by a government commission's report that terrorists are likely to stage a biological or nuclear attack somewhere in the world during the next five years—some experts are urging officials "to retire the fear card," as California Rep. Jane Harman puts it.
Former Sen. Bob Graham (R) joins with Sen. Jim Talent and others of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism for a press conference.
"We need to educate and inform the American people, not terrify them with alarming details about possible threats to the homeland," she said, reacting to the 132-page report from the Commission for the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism released this week.
Harman, who heads the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment, added, "It's time for the rhetoric about that threat to calm, instead of inflame, an anxious public."
read the rest..
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/12/03/slew-of-warnings-on-nuclear-biological-terrorism-prompt-worries-of-fearmongering_print.htm