Roger A: “Regretably the terrorist warnings are a damned if you do/if you dont situation. The things that would make them credible and urgent to the public would of course be the sources and methods upon which the warnings are based; but, divulging those also tells the bad guys that their security is compromised.”

This was exactly what the NYT was whining about in their article this morning, in which they were trying to explain away yesterday’s knee-jerk, “It was all just politics!” story. Their excuse today is basically: Okay, so some of the intel was new, after all, but how can you blame us, dear reader, for thinking it was just politics, when they didn’t tell us all the etails of the intelligence reports.

Good grief, are we Americans really as stupid as the Times seems to think we are? Surely Joe and Jane Blow out in Topeka understand about the need to protect intelligence sources?