NYT:
Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, on Wednesday recanted his claim that the new surveillance powers recently given to the government helped foil a terrorist plot in Germany.
“Information contributing to the recent arrests was not collected under authorities provided by the Protect America Act,” Mr. McConnell said in a statement issued late in the day.
A Bush official admitted that he was wrong. Pegging signs of the imminent apocalypse is Michael Stickings’ purview so I won’t speculate about whether this means that the dead will soon rise out of their graves. But it sure doesn’t happen often*.
(*) Excepting abu Gonzales, who made a sort of side career out of correcting himself.