Why it's hard to take these "terror plots" seriously

I'm very well aware of the dangers of shrugging off terrorist threats, even when one comes up like the JFK/oil pipeline plot that the FBI knew about for a year and a half and decided to break to the public on the day when the casualty numbers for American soldiers in Iraq was particularly appalling and right before the Democratic debate; one that experts even in the oil industry say wasn't feasible at the same time as a hack Bush-appointed U.S. attorney was still insisting that the consequences of such an attack would be "unthinkable."

If Keith Olbermann didn't exist, we would have to invent him. Last night he updated his roundup of "coincidental" confluences of bad news for the Bush administration with news of terror threats and plots thwarted:

Part 2 is at Crooks and Liars.