I was just going to post that the NYT significantly changed their tune on the terror warning data today when Roger updated his topic with this info. The above the fold front page headline is “New Qaeda Activity Is Said to Be Major Factor in Alert”. I found the article’s backtracking rather significant considering previous “revisions” by NYT have usually been buried (ref. Joe Wilson, Richard Clarke). I have found yesterday’s and today’s reports quite interesting in that much of the reporting is with unnamed sources – leaks perhaps. I wonder whether yesterday’s sources were out to damage the adminstration while today’s attempted to clean up the mess.

Also there is this:

“That shifting tone [refering to high level of AQ activity] may prove frustrating to the public, providing little guidance for assessing the gravity of threat information whose details remain shrouded in intelligence reports not available to anyone outside the highest ranks of the government.

A senior White House official who mentioned the new stream of intelligence in an interview refused to say anything more about its source or content. The official said it had not been publicly disclosed out of concern that such a step could compromise intelligence and law enforcement operations in the United States and around the world. Officials would not describe those operations but said they were meant to disrupt a possible plot.”

It is possible to interpret these grafs as merely pointing out the obvious – got to keep intelligence sources secret for national security. But if it so obvious why bring it up in the first place? An experienced MSM skeptic might infer that the writer is attempting to keep alive the meme that the reluctance to be “open” is really about politics.