Does ABC's "NSA Spies on Press" Mean that Rove is Close to Indictment?

[McCamy Taylor]

The administration has always operated on the principle of hiding one damaging story by using the smoke of another, less damaging story. The first Bush administration did the same thing. It is a Karl Rove specialty.

Recall that not long ago, Mrs. Alan Greenspan had the online world fixated for a whole wekkend with the rumor that the WH had spied on Christine Amanpour. This "revelation" came immediately after the LA Times and the Guardian reported that the CIA had accidently given Iran a near perfect blue print for a nuke in 2004.

I immortalized this in cartoon form here, as "Smoke Got in their Eyes":

http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/060127.htm

Today, ABC has told us that the NSA may have used telephone info to discover the ID of confidential sources. This scoop was not delivered om the TV news, but rather on its blog.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federal_source_.html

A great place to post something if you want to keep the inter-net chatters busy, and keep them off another, more politically damgerous topic---like the possible indictment of Karl Rove. Reporters would rather report on stories about the press than almost anything else, especially stories about how the press is being attacked or victimized. Also, consider the source. Just days ago, ABC rushed out a bogus poll that claimed to show that the majority of Americans were eager to share their phone records with Big Brother.

Moral: where there is smoke in the Bush administration, start looking for another fire somewhere else. I would bet money that something else very, very bad for Bush is about to happen, and that something else could well be a Rove indictment as predicted last Friday.

[havocmom]

1. Dunno, but it does mean the Police State is here

and now

[katty]

2. concur-this has their branding iron all over it

[movonne]

3. K and R