Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said
Tuesday the government concluded "it was essential" to publicize
detailed surveillance documents and raise the terror alert, even though
the intelligence information dated from as far back as 2000 and 2001.
Speaking at a news conference in New York, Ridge said that because of
the heightened security steps, "We have made it much more difficult for
the terrorists to achieve their broad objectives." Yet investigators
said they are still trying to determine whether the individuals who
amassed the information, principally on financial institutions in New
York, Newark and Washington, are still in the country and plotting, or
whether the plot was old. [more]
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