Como diría el estadista, la presencia de una amenaza continuada, elimina muchas de las responsabilidades de un gobierno democrático. Parece que el gobierno de George W. Bush sigue esta norma a rajatabla, poniendo a su población al borde del «ataque de nervios» con alertas de seguridad contínuas.
El periódico New York Times ha descubierto que la última «alerta terrorista» del gobierno estadounidense (alerta naranja) se basaba en informes anteriores al 11S. [«Enlace»:http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/03intel.html?hp].
-Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terrorist plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way.
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Taken together with a separate, more general stream of intelligence, which indicates that Al Qaeda intends to strike in the United States this year, possibly in New York or Washington, the officials said even the dated but highly detailed evidence of surveillance was sufficient to prompt the authorities to undertake a global effort to track down the unidentified suspects involved in the surveillance operations.
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Taken together with a separate, more general stream of intelligence, which indicates that Al Qaeda intends to strike in the United States this year, possibly in New York or Washington, the officials said even the dated but highly detailed evidence of surveillance was sufficient to prompt the authorities to undertake a global effort to track down the unidentified suspects involved in the surveillance operations.