why now?

[winterbadger]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3767915.stm

US terror suspect Jose Padilla had been planning to blow up apartment buildings and use a "dirty bomb", according to US Deputy Attorney General James Comey.

The former Chicago gang member has been held without charge at a US military prison as an "enemy combatant" for the past two years.

Mr Comey said the US Justice Department was releasing new information about him in order to explain his imprisonment.

Padilla has been in custody for two years. Why is it suddenly important to relrease this information now?

I heard two commnetators on NPR this morning, one a former senior member of the State Department's counterterrorism and one a former senior FBI CT officer; they affirmed that some of the people listed at the AG's recent press conference on an imminent "terror threat" are people the US intel and law enforcement community has known about since teh 1990s; some of them have been listed on the FBI's "wanted" website for months; why are they suddenly being splashed on the front pages fo the paper?

Can this administration manage to play politics with national security any more callously and blatantly?

Comments

[winterbadger]

True, but it's hardly new in the term of this administration.The Bush team has been treating Constitutional rights as "inviolable, except when they're not" ever since 9/11.

[robbysmom.livejournal.com]

9/11 is recent in history. . . they've had Padilla since summer 2002, as I recall.