Al Qaeda intercept is just one piece of threat intelligence: U.S. sources
WASHINGTON – Intercepted communication between al Qaeda leaders was one component of a broader pool of intelligence that prompted a threat alert closing numerous U.S. embassies in the Middle East and Africa, U.S. sources said on Monday.
There is also this conspiracy theory from Limbaugh, Greenwald, and this one about the real threat being an attack on Obama’s birthday!