The fear mongering about terrorist threats isn’t ringing true based on past history: when the US Federal Government doesn’t get its way on “Terrorism” as an excuse for control or spying, it stages a “terrorist threat” to try to change the narrative. This was covered in today’s DayPage:

http://daypage.net/ar/DayPage~2013-08-05~Fear_Mongering_the_Surveillance_Society.mp3

Also, on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! Glenn Greenwald, the journalist at The Guardian who help break Snowden’s documents, talks about the hypocrisy evident in the latest claims of a “terrorist threat”.