If Terror Strikes the Polls
October 17, 2004 by Homeland Security NTARC News
Filed under Homeland Security News
It’s practically an article of faith among counterterrorism officials that Al Qaeda will try to hit the U.S. homeland in the run-up to the presidential election. As a result, federal authorities are at a heightened level of security not seen since the days after 9/11. On Sept. 24, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued an extraordinary emergency order to the FBI’s 56 field offices, giving bureau officials the power to commandeer federal agents from across the government to respond to a terror threat.
