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Anyone in kidnapping an american. the white benghazi rebels is hosting threats to sabstage gas pipelines and kidnap americans. the analyst said the threats should not be dismissed. >> the calls are most likely credible and we know senior al-qaeda leadership we have seen the call for holding americans. >> fox news asked the state department if they would revise the worldwide caution. >> i know there is a range of reports, but i haven't heard of specific new concerns. but i will check with hem. >> the u.s. embassy in uganda is under a threat warning. the al shabab may attempt a similar attack to...

Purposes, whatever means they used to communicate, those two al qaeda guys, that may have been a very valuable source of information for the united states, valuable enough to have produced this threat warning and to have down -- shut down all these embassies. but now, that source of information has been disclosed to the people who were using it and so as an information source, as an intelligence source because of this leak, it is gone. and, of course, the other side of this it was all political. we're talking about the surveillance powers. and right now, there are heightened domestic political...

Closing these embassies. that doesn't mean there's some ultraspecific threat against 19 different facilities that are closed over the coming week. without benghazi, the reaction, i think, would be very different. the political costs of benghazi to the obama administration, as you know, was very, very large. and that is the political context here. >> and, phil, what happens now? does the u.s. wait this out? does the threat go away? at some point the embassies reopen? >> this is fascinating. from someone who once sat in the chair. when we're going to remember from yellow to orange back in eep 3,...

Was information in the system. everybody -- the state department itself is saying, in an abundance of caution, we're closing these embassies, it doesn't mean there's some ultraspecific threat against 19 different facilities that are closed over the coming week. without benghazi, the reaction, i think would be different. the political costs of benghazi to the obama administration, as you know, was very, very large. and that is the political context here. >> what happens now? does the u.s. wait this out? does the threat go away? at some point the embassy is open? >> this is fascinating. when we'...

Say something other than oh vaguely we have national security concerns so we're shutting down the embassies. we're worried about some threat we're not going to talk about. that's still the official line, right? it is helpful to be able to say that actually what this is an intercept of al qaeda's top leadership talking to each other directly about an imminent attack at a specific time. that said, you do not necessarily want the newspapers to print that the exact intercept you got was between guy named "a" and guy named "b" because then you are telling those specific guys in the pages of the "mi...