Chertoff had report of Glasgow attack; somehow Glasgow never warned

[tourdeforce]

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 "airport infrastructure and aircraft."

The warnings apparently never reached officials in Scotland, who said this weekend they had received "no advance intelligence" that Glasgow might be a target.

Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff declined to comment specifically on on the report today, but said "everything that we get is shared virtually instantaneously with our counterparts in Britain and vice versa."

The incompetence and malpractice is mind-boggling.

The article also reports-

A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.

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Unlike the United States, officials in Germany have publicly warned that the country could face a major attack this summer, also comparing the situation to the pre-9/11 summer of 2001.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3336148

[blacbird]

Bear in mind that Michael Chertoff is the same Michael Chertoff who appeared on TV to announce that Homeland Security had no information that anything was going wrong at the Convention Center in New Orleans after Katrina flooding, at the same moment as those networks were broadcasting live video of the chaotic conditions there, including at least one dead body in a wheelchair on the sidewalk.

For that alone, he deserved being fired. So we expect competence now?

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