Is it a Coincidence?

I tend to both chuckle and disregard conspiracy theorists. Honest. But I am not alone in having noticed that quite often during the Bush administration, homeland security alerts would grow in intensity just before an election. Remember? We would go for months and months at "yellow," but as the election neared it would go to the next color up. So, I couldn't help but notice the timing of the arrest of the four suspects in last week's terrorist plot to blow up a New York synagogue. After a full year of "investigating" this plot, why was there this very public arrest on the day that Dick Cheney was making his speech competing with President Obama's speech about torture and Guatanamo? Interestingly, I haven't heard anyone else taking notice of this, but the timing could not have been more suspicious.