President Bush's oh-so-dramatic announcement of a terror plot foiled in Los Angeles four years ago blasted its way into the consciousness of the cable news nets. They have been unable to talk about much else today. The tidbit is part of the president's campaign to shore up public confidence in his waging of the War on Terror®.
Interestingly, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says the president's speech was, literally, the first he has ever heard of any such plot.
"I'm amazed that the president would make this (announcement) on national TV and not inform us of these details through the appropriate channels," the mayor said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I don't expect a call from the president -- but somebody."
The mayor also suggested that some funding from the Iraq war could be redirected to homeland security, including the protection of high-risk targets in Los Angeles. He did not advocate an immediate withdrawal of troops.
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One small wrinkle... Villaraigosa wasn't mayor until 2005.
So let's see.. by 2002, when the alleged LA terror plot occurred, Antonio Villaraigosa had:
Failed the bar exam 4 times
Presided over the LA chapter of the ACLU
Just failed in a 2001 bid for the LA Mayor's office
... and the President didn't provide full disclosure of national security matters to him?
I'm shocked, simply shocked.
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