Is The U.S. Global Terror Alert And Closure Of Diplomatic Posts Overblowned To Silent Critics Of The NSA Surveillance Program And To Bolster It's Supporters?

US Embassy Closures Used To Bolster Case For NSA Surveillance programs -- The Guardian

Congress told that NSA monitoring led to interception of al-Qaida threats but privacy campaigners fear ulterior political motives

US embassies in the Middle East are to remain closed for the rest of the week as supporters of the National Security Agency's sweeping surveillance powers used the unspecified terror alert to bolster the case against reining in the controversial measures.

A privacy group questioned the publicity given to the latest alert after the State Department announced on Sunday evening that the number of embassies and consulates closed "out of an abundance of caution"
would be increased, with some remaining shut for up to a week.

It follows the alleged interception of unspecified al-Qaida terror threats in Yemen, which intelligence committee members in Congress have been told were collected overseas using powers granted to the NSA under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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My Comment: Talk about timing .... last week the NSA critics were gaining steam in Congress and the media .... and today .... we now have this threat alert. Not surprising .... Glenn Greenwald who was the first reporter to break the NSA surveillance story is smelling a rat. As to what is my assessment on these terror threats .... I am giving the administration the benefit of the doubt that these threats are real .... but I do find it odd that with this grave terror assessment .... one of the gravest in years .... President Obama still decided to go away for his golf vacation.

Update: Terror Threat Intelligence Not New. Agencies knew of threat to embassies, officials for months -- Washington Free Beacon