Bush reveals foiled attack

Back in October of 2001 an attack was scheduled to blast open the doors of an airliner with shoe bombs and crash the plane into Los Angeles' tallest building, President Bush said yesterday.

Bush presumably gave this information to gain support for his terrorist surveillance program. However, there is no indication that the plot was foiled with the use of wiretaps. White House spokesman Scott McLellan would not reveal whether any wiretaps helped uncover the LA plot. I think it's pretty unlikely that this was the case. I say this because he probably would have revealed that information yesterday.

The target was the Library Tower -- a 310m office building in the Los Angeles central business district. In fact this building was the first destroyed by the aliens in the movie Independence Day.