* The terror alert has been raised back up to orange. Does anyone know what that means? Are we actually supposed to do anything different? I guess we're supposed to get to airports earlier but is that because of the alert or the Christmas rush? Are we just supposed to spend the Christmas holidays being thankful that Sheriff Bush, Tom Ridge, John Ashcroft and the PATRIOT Act are protecting us? Should we take this as an excuse not to go to work the next three days?
* While we ponder the meaning of the latest color-coded mystery alert, Virginia Republican Congressman Frank Wolf is saying that coordination with the European democracies on anti-terrorist efforts has been rotten. And he seems to think it's not mainly the fault of the Europeans. One European intelligence official commented, "If you call sharing a one-way street, then we share information. They [the Americans] want what we have immediately, and demand it. But if we ask for something, it can take months before we even get an initial reply."
* Military affairs analyst William Arkin explains why giving up on the WMD snipe hunt (mostly) allowed the US to concentrate more of the available intelligence resources in Iraq on hunting down Saddam Hussein. Plus, Arkin says, "it is highly unlikely that, even if Hussein chooses to talk freely, he would be able to tell CIA interrogators anything useful, because it now seems likely that the Iraqi leader was himself deceived about the status of Iraq's weapons."
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