Then they went to their internet monitoring logs to look at the "chatter" and found other references to it.
Lieberman (unintentionally) made it clear they have more information than they've released. Some of the details of the plot were, in his words, "unbelievable." John King seized right on that description and asked "Unbelievable how? Like implausible or like frightening?" Lieberman (I think) realized he almost let the cat out of the bag and said "Well from information we have that I am not at liberty to share", he'd say the plot was "illogical."
So now we have an "illogical" plot. Which I assume means one that doesn't make sense in the manner in which it is going to be executed. What could it be? Wrong ingredients? An operation ill-suited to the intended target? Unlikely to pull off the intended damage?
The officials all sound non-perturbed by it. So why tell everyone? (1) to let the perps know law enforcement is on to them (so they can triple check their steps?) and (2) to cover their ass**s if something does go down.
Half of them sound like it's just a "Hi I'm still here" kind of signal from al Qaida. No one seems to think there will be a serious attack.
And then there's Joe Biden. He says it's probably a "lone wolf." How can a conspiracy formed and being discussed by people overseas, with an intended target here, be the work of a lone wolf? A lone wolf is someone who acts alone. This, by all available information, is a plot. Just because one individual ultimately detonates a bomb, that doesn't make him a "lone wolf" if the plot was conceived by or with others.
On the one hand, the feds and local law enforcement in Washington and NY are putting on a pretty big show, including "uniformed and undercover (cops), more police cruisers in the field, and enhanced deployments of our specialty units [including] K9, bomb squad, Hazmat, and SWAT." On the other, they say the threat is "specific to car bombs at bridges and tunnels.
If it's only at bridges and tunnels, why blanket the entire metropolitan area and subways and buses and parks and Times Square with more cops?
As usual, we're just getting half a story, and one that is filled with inconsistencies and conflicting messages.
Also during this CNN segment, they played a new clip of Darth Cheney criticizing Obama for discontinuing waterboarding. King then asked Lieberman for his position, and of course he said if we had a detainee in custody who might know something, he'd support waterboarding.