BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US terror plot intelligence 'old'

Suddenly when his presidencial rival John Kerry appears to have finally have had his personallity installed and gets a large poll boast so that they are riding kneck and kneck new intelligence is descovered that Al Qaeda is planning attacks on New York and Washington. Except that it turns out that this "new" intelligence is actually up to three years old with the newest collected in January. It is not known if this plan is even still active. Could this be a little desperation from Mr President?