Saturday, May 25, 2013
Sen. Susan Collins is among the lawmakers who received a classified briefing tonight on a reported credible terrorist threat, according to the Maine Republican’s office.
(Updated as of 10 p.m.: Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, also was briefed on the threat in her role as a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.)
Collins is the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. In that role, she was briefed on the situation by John Brennan’s President Obama’s top counterterrorism advisor, said Kevin Kelley, Collins’ spokesman. Collins also received a briefing earlier Thursday from Department of Homeland Security officials.
ABC News has reported, citing intelligence officials, that the CIA learned over the past 24 hours that at least three people came into the United States in August “with the intent to launch a vehicle-borne attack against Washington, D.C. or New York around the anniversary of 9/11.”
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Kevin Miller is Washington bureau chief for the Portland Press Herald and MaineToday Media. He has worked as a journalist in Maine for 6 ½ years, covering the environment, politics and the State House. Before arriving in Maine, he wrote about politics, government and education for newspapers in Virginia and Maryland.
Kevin can be reached at 317-6256 or kmiller@mainetoday.com
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