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July 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Homeland Security officials are considering ways to delay the November presidential election if the al-Qaeda network carries out a terrorist attack aimed at disrupting the campaign, Newsweek reported, citing people it didn't identify.
``We are reviewing the issue to determine what steps need to be taken to secure the election,'' Homeland Security spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said, according to Newsweek.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a9ZY_31nXJBQ&refer=us
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. counterterrorism officials are looking at an emergency proposal on the legal steps needed to postpone the November presidential election in case of an attack by al Qaeda, Newsweek reported on Sunday.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned last week that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network may attack within the United States to try to disrupt the election.
Soaries wants Ridge to ask Congress to pass legislation giving the government such power, Newsweek reported in its latest issue that hits the newsstands on Monday.
Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Rochrkasse told the magazine the agency is reviewing the matter "to determine what steps need to be taken to secure the election."
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5637163
The government is not raising its color-coded alert status, however, he said, and U.S. officials do not have specific knowledge about where, when or how an attack might take place.
The CIA, FBI and other agencies ''are actively working to gain that knowledge,'' Ridge said.
Asked why he had made a public announcement on Thursday, Ridge said that after the attacks in Madrid, Spain, he considered it ''very important, on a periodic basis, to frankly just give Americans an update as to where we are and what we are doing.''
Ridge said he doesn't agree with all of the conclusions in Soaries' letter, but the department is working on constitutional and security questions, and Soaries will be involved in the process.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-qaida09.html
``We are reviewing the issue to determine what steps need to be taken to secure the election,'' Homeland Security spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said, according to Newsweek.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a9ZY_31nXJBQ&refer=us
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. counterterrorism officials are looking at an emergency proposal on the legal steps needed to postpone the November presidential election in case of an attack by al Qaeda, Newsweek reported on Sunday.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned last week that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network may attack within the United States to try to disrupt the election.
Soaries wants Ridge to ask Congress to pass legislation giving the government such power, Newsweek reported in its latest issue that hits the newsstands on Monday.
Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Rochrkasse told the magazine the agency is reviewing the matter "to determine what steps need to be taken to secure the election."
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5637163
The government is not raising its color-coded alert status, however, he said, and U.S. officials do not have specific knowledge about where, when or how an attack might take place.
The CIA, FBI and other agencies ''are actively working to gain that knowledge,'' Ridge said.
Asked why he had made a public announcement on Thursday, Ridge said that after the attacks in Madrid, Spain, he considered it ''very important, on a periodic basis, to frankly just give Americans an update as to where we are and what we are doing.''
Ridge said he doesn't agree with all of the conclusions in Soaries' letter, but the department is working on constitutional and security questions, and Soaries will be involved in the process.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-qaida09.html
