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The Washington Post, and plenty of others now, are reporting that Administration officials are conceding the data that prompted the terror alerts in Washington and NYC was three-years old. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge indicated that while the intelligence was updated earlier this year, there was no evidence of recent surveillance of the targets.

Kerry campaign spinsters were already on-air today, asserting the Administration's motives were more about politics and less about security. That might be a hard sell, though - apparently federal officials briefed Kerry on the new threat, and CNN reports that "he takes the reported terror threats seriously."