It didn't enhance the damage-control counteroffensive when The Associated Press reported on May 21: "There is an element of politics to the administration's warnings, officials acknowledged." Or when, on the same day, The Globe and Mail informed Canadians: "White House officials told reporters that the blunt warnings issued yesterday and Sunday do not reflect a dramatic increase in threatening information but rather a desire to fend off criticism from the Democrats."

I know how you all enjoy my links.
so I put a ' quote ' from the link.
heh. great stuff.