RSA foils al Qaeda attack, compare and contrast

This is an interesting comparison to the Bush-Ashcroft "be afraid, be very afraid" tactics. Despite all of the problems that the South African government has had with corruption and mismanagement, they are still able to show some kind of actions and results from a foiled terrorist threat. Compare this to the Ashcroft press conference yesterday where he pushed fear once again but has yet to point out anything specific with regards to previous similar warnings and tangible results. This was supposed to be a business-like, results oriented administration, right? OK, so where are the results? If Ashcroft can not provide anything specific about the potential threat, which is even being questioned by Senator Richard J. Durbin of the Senate intelligence committee, at least he could help Americans understand what the results were from previous announcements. I am not talking about his broad comments about previous disruptions, but something a little more specific. With the terror code color not even changing and Senate intelligence committee members not knowing about anything new or specific, the American public really needs to be able to see something more than the same old "trust us" bullshit that we have been hearing.