Summer Terror "Spectacular"

Yesterday, Brian Ross of ABC News reported:

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.

It appears that this unnamed official can't keep a secret.

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."

What is Ross doing?

And what is his source doing?

If it's true that al Qaeda claims to have plans for a "spectacular" attack this summer, and officials are following up on the intelligence, it's obvious that officials made the determination to not inform our enemies that we're picking up on their plans.

Nonetheless, the leaker official, Brian Ross, and ABC News selfishly prefer to expose their scoop over saving lives and nabbing our enemies.

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."

Of course, BUSH KNEW!!!

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."

Rather than focusing on the terrorist threat, ABC News acts as if the main point of the story is the U.S. government's failure to warn the American public about potential terror just as it supposedly failed to share intelligence with Glasgow.

Ross the opportunity to bash the U.S. when he should be giving his attention to the enemies plotting against us.

This has really been an awful stretch here. It's great that the terrorists have failed to the damage they desired. That's looking on the bright side.

But I can't get away from the dark and ugly side -- Terrorists are determined to kill innocents, not only in Britain but in the U.S. as well.

Is news of this supposedly "spectacular" plan supposed to haunt us?

Is that what we have to look forward to?

Is fear supposed to bring our lives to a halt?

It bothers me that officials are leaking information meant for the Department of Homeland Security.

It bothers me that members of the press go public with security information that was not intended for public consumption.

I also object to the accusation that the U.S. government had advance warning of the Scotland attack but failed to share it, as though there's something sinister afoot.

If Ross and ABC News want to point fingers and assign blame, they should condemn the terrorists first and foremost.

President Bush was right when he said the War on Terror would be long and difficult.

It's sad that there are sickos out there spending their lives thinking up ways to target and kill innocent people.

The terrorists are really miserable, joyless creatures.

"Spectacular" is watching the sunset on the bay side of Wisconsin's Door County peninsula; then driving to the lake side to watch the moon rise. Within 40 minutes on Saturday evening, I experienced two absolutely spectacular sights of God's creation.



I guess a "spectacular" terrorist attack is God's creation, too.

In the deranged minds of the terrorists, killing in the name of Allah is breathtakingly beautiful, offering heavenly rewards.