Secret, What's A Secret

Reported on Monday, July 02, 2007, ABC News Reports:

Secret Document: U.S. Fears Terror 'Spectacular' Planned

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.

Soap Box Ravings asks: If the report is "Secret," why is an un-named official even discussing it?

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."

The warnings apparently never reached officials in Scotland, who said this weekend they had received "no advance intelligence" that Glasgow might be a target.

Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff declined to comment specifically on on the report today, but said "everything that we get is shared virtually instantaneously with our counterparts in Britain and vice versa."

Soap Box Ravings asks: What kind of comment would you expect a responsible public official make about an official report?

Soap Box Ravings says: Any idiot could figure out that Al Qaeda is going to attack their targets any where and at any time. Al Qaeda has publicly stated this in the past. The "secret" report can not say anything but "there will be attempts in the future." And every country on the receiving end knows damn well that the attacks are coming. The only people that are always surprised are those with their heads buried in the sand, of which we have many in this country as does the rest of the free world.