A revolution every 20 years. That’s what Thomas Jefferson recommended for a healthy republic, and we’re way past due here in America. Here’s more proof:
In a Newsweek exclusive rehash of a two-week old story filed by an Associated Press reporter, Michael Isikoff warns that counterterrorism officials are reviewing a proposal to postpone the upcoming presidential election as a sort of premptive move against an unsubstantiated Al Qaeda strike.
Timing is everything in politics, and this sham is no different and typical of the Bush White House. The Senate intelligence committee—led by a Bush-supporting Republican (Pat Roberts; R-Kansas)—issues a scathing report on the total and utter failure of accurately assessing the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and the Bush administration issues yet another unsubstantiated Chicken Little threat assessment to deflect attention.
Here’s the key bit from Isikoff’s piece: “[Homeland Security Secretary Tom] Ridge and other counterterrorism officials concede they have no intel about any specific plots.”
UPDATE Sunday, 11 July 2004 03:05PM CDT: True to corporate media form, Isikoff’s Newsweek piece is neither exclusive nor timely. As indicated in the edits above, Erica Werner filed the story for the Associated Press more than two weeks ago.
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