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GUARDIAN: L.A. MAYOR "BLINDSIDED" BY TERROR-INFO...
There's not only this question about this "liberty-library-tower" as L.A.'s mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has revealed right now. More than a simple slip of the tongue?
Or a new kind of campaign? - Same as the rechristianizing of "Pommes Frittes" to those "Freedom Fries"?
Or, maybe Los Angeles needs some liberating - from ...?
Yeah, from what? From Schwarzenegger? From Hollywood? From the raising gas prices?
L.A. Mayor Blindsided by Terror Info Friday February 10, 2006 11:16 AM
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - President Bush's disclosure of new details about a foiled 2002 terrorist plan to destroy the city's tallest building has strained relations between the White House and the mayor, who accused the Bush administration of taking too long to tell him of the new information.
President Bush detailed the planned attack in a speech Thursday, saying terrorists intended to use shoe bombs to hijack an airliner and crash it into downtown's 73-story US Bank Tower.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said he got word of the new details like everyone else - watching Bush's speech on TV. He said his office should have been warned beforehand about Bush's announcement, which set off a new round of anxiety over terrorism in the nation's second-largest city.
"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."
Villaraigosa also criticized the White House for rebuffing requests in July and August to meet with the president to discuss security issues.
As it turns out, the White House did notify City Hall, if indirectly. A spokesman for Matt Bettenhausen, California's homeland security chief, said he personally contacted a deputy mayor Wednesday afternoon with advance notice of the president's comments.
Michelle Petrovich, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said the agency notified the Los Angeles Police Department, along with state officials, that the 2002 plot would be mentioned during the president's speech.
Villaraigosa later confirmed that City Hall was notified Wednesday. But that information was only general, city officials said, and the mayor was never informed. They said they had no warning that numerous new details of the plot would be disclosed.
Bush offered the additional details to highlight international cooperation in fighting terrorists. But in Los Angeles, the questions of how and when the city was notified underscored the fragility of communications between different government entities.
"I would have expected a direct call from the White House," Villaraigosa said at City Hall.
In his interview with the AP, the mayor called communication with the White House "nonexistent." He also called for more federal aid to safeguard the city.
Some information about the foiled attack was disclosed last year, but until Thursday the White House had provided only a vague description of what was planned.
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City officials stressed that Los Angeles was not facing an imminent threat. Others urged residents not to worry....
OK, "Librarian Laura, No.1" is just visiting the Pope in Italy. But that should be no reason that ...
...yeah, what? I dunno anymore. And I don't think it is important anyhow. If you're making something up - what difference do the details make?
The Mayor of LA did't know about this "plot" - and he should have been the one to know about, or? Is this again a question of "national security"? To keep all the relevant details disclosed for the next 500 years at least?
Pshhh, ssshhhh - don't tell anyone: 9/11 WAS like Pearl Harbor...!!!
