NY Times, AP, USA Today ignored experts' doubts about threat posed by foiled L.A. terror plot
February 10, 2006 4:58 pm ET
SUMMARY: Reporting on President Bush's February 9 account of how the government successfully thwarted a 2002 Al Qaeda plot to crash a hijacked airplane into a Los Angeles skyscraper, numerous media outlets -- including The New York Times, Associated Press, and USA Today -- ignored doubts among counterterrorism officials that the proposed attack ever advanced beyond the initial planning stages and ever posed a serious threat.
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