Treason by ABC news?

This developing story on Drudge is alleging that ABCNews is holding a video tape which it acquired over the past weekend in Pakistan.

• US intelligence officials believe the man on tape may be Adam Gadhan - aka Adam Pearlman, a California native who was highlighted by the FBI in May as an individual most likely to be involved in or have knowledge of the next al Qaeda attacks.

Wait a minute, didn't Michael Moore tell us that "there is no terrorist threat"?

Of course, ABC denies that it was holding the tape in an effort to hide new facts about America's enemies. According to Drudge:

• ABCNEWS strongly denies holding the tape back from broadcast over political concerns during the last days of the election.

Here's my conclusion on this election, it's really quite simple.

If you are scared of the terrorists, and want to pretend they don't exist or are only mad at us because of George Bush and America's support of Israel, vote for John Kerry.

On the other hand, if you believe that Osama bin Laden's open letter to the United States demonstrates clearly a hate-filled ideology bought into by millions of people world wide who are willing to die while killing Americans, and that these extremists can only be defeated by pursuing them aggressively, vote for George Bush.

UPDATE: CIA can't authenticate the tape.

UPDATE: ABCNews suggests that the amount of "missing explosives" may have been overestimated.

UPDATE: US Army commander theorizes that the weapons were already gone when his unit secured the al QaQaa weapons depot.

UPDATE: CIA and FBI have now authenticated the tape say Drudge and WND, according to a Drudge source:

• One senior federal official alleged ABCNEWS is now holding back from broadcasting any portion of the video out of fear it will be seen as a political move by the network during election week.

As the Washington Post reports:

• The problem, say ABC News executives, is that they can't determine whether the tape, obtained by a producer, involves a real threat -- or even the identity of the figure on it, a man wearing an ammunition belt and a headdress that obscures his face. The network enlisted the aid of the FBI and CIA but still can't authenticate the 75-minute videotape.
  
  "We're not quite there to broadcast something that would be quite frightening," investigative reporter Brian Ross said yesterday. "I'd love to have the exclusive, but first we'd like to get it right."

UPDATE: Thursday afternoon(28 October 2004), Drudge claims that:

• ABCNEWS withheld portions of an alarming new al Qaeda videotape which warns the next terror attack will dwarf 9/11 from the CIA when they submitted the video for analysis, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

UPDATE: Thursday night, MyWay news reports:

• ABC News on Thursday broadcast a videotape it obtained last week of an English-speaking man who threatens bloody new al Qaeda attacks on the United States, but the network said U.S. intelligence officials could not authenticate the man's voice.

  "U.S intelligence officials say while they still cannot authenticate the voice on the tape, it has all the trademarks of an al Qaeda production," ABC News said.

Remember, there is NO bias at ABC News. None at all.