Olbermann on bomb plot: “None of this is new.”
If today’s events make you wonder whether we might again be accused of being too focused on yesterday’s threats rather than anticipating tomorrow’s, you would not be alone.
Five months ago, our senior investigative correspondent Lisa Meyers, wanted to find out how the government was dealing with the then-anticipated threat of explosive components smuggled on board. And, more than a decade ago, Ramsey Yousef concocted a plot of mixing his own liquid explosives in mid-flight and blowing up or crippling a series of airliners over an ocean.
None of this is new…
Future historians will marvel that Bush’s words, not his deeds, were the only thing that gave him the reputation of being “tough on terrorism.”
