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The Latest on Air America — ... on December 10 by a government. Let us save you the wait: The bailout plan is incoherent. Just in case you were getting too worried about the economy, the Washington Post reports that a WMD attack on a major city is now considered "likely" by authorities.  Because you have to do something while things fall apart, Edison fires up their ...

Terrorist WMD attack chances rise
The Swamp — ... According to the Washington Post, a congressionally created commission will issue a report tomorrow containing the hair-raising alarm that there's a better than even chance that terrorists will attack a major city with a weapon of mass destruction in the next five years. ...

Hugh Hewitt: Do Terrorists Read Newspapers?
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stevens wonders whether terrorists are absorbing the worst narratives about their enemies that the media can serve up, thus allowing the killers to justify to themselves their atrocities. Sensationalism can have terrible consequences, Stevens warns: But it's worth wondering why a media that treats nearly every word uttered by the U.S., British or Israeli governments as inherently suspect has proved so consistently credulous when it comes to every dubious or defamatory claim made against those governments. Or, for that matter, why the media has been so intent on magnifying genuine scandals (like Abu Ghraib) to the point that they become the ...

Hugh Hewitt: Do Terrorists Read Newspapers?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... Abu Ghraib) to the point that they become the moral equivalent of 9/11. Some caution is in order: Terrorists, of all people, might actually believe what they read in the papers. I still haven't found one MSM article pondering whether the New York Times'/Los Angeles Times' compromise of the Swift program two years ago might have made the task of tracking and discovering the Mumbai terrorists more difficult. It is the sort of question I guess we shouldn't expect the MSM to ponder. Perhaps after terrorists strike the U.S. with WMD , media critics will begin to wonder whether ...

ThinkFast: December 2, 2008
Think Progress — ... that “[t]he odds that terrorists will soon strike a major city with weapons of mass destruction are now better than even.” The report “singled out Pakistan as a grave concern because of its terrorist networks, history of instability and arsenal of several dozen nuclear warheads.” ...

Romney Rising Fool.
INSTAPUTZ — I think Obama's victory has had a desiccative effect on Hewitt's brain, because he appears to view a terror attack on American soil as a "told you so" moment: Perhaps after terrorists strike the U.S. with WMD, media critics will begin to wonder whether the self-anointed guardians of the truth within the MSM were really serving the public's interest or their own. Ha ha. All that's missing is a plea to buy his crappy books.

A 50% Chance of WMD Terrorism?
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Via WaPo: Report Sounds Alarm on Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction The odds that terrorists will soon strike a major city with weapons of mass destruction are now better than even, a bipartisan congressionally mandated task force concludes in a draft study that warns of growing threats from rogue states, nuclear smuggling networks and the spread of atomic know-how in the developing world. [...] “Without greater urgency and decisive action by the world community, it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by ...

Chicken Little on WMD
PoliGazette — In the latest in a long series of “sky is falling” reports about trends in terrorism, a Congressional task force has proclaimed that an attack using biological or nuclear weapons is likely by the end of 2013.  Of course, the threat is real in the abstract.  Groups like al-Qaeda have made no secret of their desire to obtain and use nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological weapons.  This report, however, appears to raise more questions than it answers. First, the report’s calculation of 2013 as a point by which WMD use is probable is strange.  The four-year period seems calculated for political effect (the next four years coincides with ...

“America’s Margin Of Safety Is Shrinking, Not Growing”
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism will release its report tomorrow. The bottom line: ...

100% Chance of BS
Newshoggers.com — By Cernig The WaPo reports today that a bipartisan Congressional study, six months in the making, has concluded that "it is more likely than not that a weapon of mass destruction will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere in the world by the end of 2013. My initail reaction is much the same as Steven Taylor's: It is not ...

Phew: Congress Has a Plan to Avert Likely WMD Attack
Weekly Standard Blog — Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that chances of a nuclear or biological attack on a major city are now "better than even" according to a bipartisan congressional study. How will we avoid this catastrophe? The United States should push for a global consensus banning states such as Iran and North Korea from adding to their stockpiles of enriched uranium and plutonium, while also ensuring supplies of commercial reactor fuel for countries that renounce nuclear weapons, the report says. How many wars could have been avoided in this nation's history if Congress had only thought earlier of pushing for a "global consensus" to ...

Cheney’s Reprised Scare Tactic: Warns Of WMD Attack If Bush Policies Are Reversed
Think Progress — Former Vice President Cheney sat down with Politico yesterday for his first interview since handing the reigns of power to the Obama administration. During the interview, Cheney wasted no time trying to defend the Bush administration’s unpopular (and perhaps illegal) counterterrorism policies, many of which he created. Cheney warned that if those policies are repealed (as many of them have already) then the U.S. is at greater risk of “a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind” going off in an American city: “I think there’s a high probability of such an attempt. Whether or not they ...

Texas Legislature To Honor ‘Dynamic Texan’ Bush For Advancing American ‘Safety and Prosperity’
Think Progress — While former President George W. Bush has kept a low profile since vacating the Oval Office, many of his closest allies have been working hard to “set the record straight” about a presidency recently ranked by historians as one of the worst ever. Last month, all 20 Texas Republicans in the U.S. House backed a bill to rename a federal courthouse in Midland, TX in Bush’s name. Now, their colleagues in the state legislature plan to further the cause with a resolution calling Bush a “dynamic Texan” and honoring him for his dedication to “the safety and prosperity of his fellow citizens”: ...