{"id":4799,"date":"2007-07-10T18:03:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T01:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2007-07-11T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T16:58:49","slug":"bushs-homeland-security-chief-predicts-terror-attacks-soon-based-solely-on-a-hunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4799","title":{"rendered":"Be Afraid: Bush&#8217;s Homeland Security Chief Predicts Terror Attacks Soon &#8211; Based Solely on a Hunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensitoreview.com\/\">Pensito  Review<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>George W. Bush&#8217;s poll numbers are mired in the 20s, so he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-070710chertoff,1,2055735.story?coll=chi-news-hed\">releases the hounds<\/a> hoping to terrify the populace into rallying to him in fear:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Calling it &#8220;a gut feeling&#8221; based on past patterns of terrorists in Europe, recent al-Qaeda statements and intelligence he did not disclose, Chertoff said of terrorists: &#8220;Summertime seems to be appealing to them. &#8230; We worry that they are rebuilding their activities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A recent terror plot in London and Scotland has America&#8217;s defense system on alert, Chertoff said. He urged Americans to be attentive if something appears suspicious. But he said there is an assessment &#8220;not of a specific threat, but of increased vulnerability.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder of Pensito Review George W. Bush&#8217;s poll numbers are mired in the 20s, so he releases the hounds hoping to terrify the populace into rallying to him in fear: Calling it &#8220;a gut feeling&#8221; based on past patterns of terrorists in Europe, recent al-Qaeda statements and intelligence he did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}