CNN.com – Sources: Tip on N.Y. subway threat a hoax – Oct 11, 2005:
From Kelli Arena
Tuesday, October 11, 2005; Posted: 1:32 p.m. EDT (17:32 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Information that led to heightened security for the New York City transit system was a hoax, government sources said Tuesday.

The sources said an informant in Iraq who provided the tip had told investigators about a terrorist plot involving New York’s subway system. That informant admitted he gave false information, the sources said.

I bet he was in Iraq.

This hoax was just what the doctor ordered to take some of the heat off of the president while he suffers from his lowest-ever approval ratings.