{"id":11314,"date":"2007-07-02T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11314.html"},"modified":"2007-07-02T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T16:30:01","slug":"a-failure-to-communicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-failure-to-communicate\/","title":{"rendered":"A failure to communicate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Towards the end of a report about the Department of Homeland Security responding to possible terrorist threats over the summer, ABC News added a <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/print?id=3336148\">disconcerting tidbit<\/a> of information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 &#8220;airport infrastructure and aircraft.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The warnings apparently never reached officials in Scotland, who said this weekend they had received &#8220;no advance intelligence&#8221; that Glasgow might be a target.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff declined to comment specifically on the report today, but said &#8220;everything that we get is shared virtually instantaneously with our counterparts in Britain and vice versa.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I certainly hope so.<\/p>\n<p>As James Joyner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/al_qaeda_terror_spectacular_this_summer\/\">put it<\/a>, &#8220;It would be an outrage, indeed, if we had solid intelligence about an attack in the UK and didn&#8217;t get around to warning them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards the end of a report about the Department of Homeland Security responding to possible terrorist threats over the summer, ABC News added a disconcerting tidbit of information: 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 &#8220;airport infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}