Spin! Spin! Spin!
Before you risk vertigo on what will follow get mellow with the Byrds.
So the folks at Danger Room earn their money by reading things so you don’t have to, like the latest de-classified National Intelligence Estimate that is carried on CBS as U.S. Warns Of “Evolving” Terror Threat, which is every bit as creative as the pirouetting pachyderms in Fantasia and it should read “Revolving,” because it keeps turning up when useful for the Hedgemony.
Sharon Weinberger presents Homeland Security Advisor: U.S. Fighting a “Single Determined Enemy” in which Frances “Whirlpool” Townsend fails to inform us exactly when it will be “determined” who, what, and/or where this enemy is, and how he, she, it, or they will be dealt with, only that we have to believe, or something bad will happen to someone, somewhere, at some time.
Noah Shachtman looks at it and pronounces the Intelligence Estimate: Snoozeville. Not only that, he locates other people who just don’t care if Tinkerbell or Frances Townsend fade away waiting for “a success that hasn’t occurred yet”.
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9 times more Americans have died from foodborne illness than by terrorist.
I think that “gut feeling” of Chertoff’s might be some bacterial thing.
Chinese toothpaste and cough syrup may top the World Trade Center.
…Frances “Whirlpool” Townsend was interviewed this morning by Steve Inskeep on Morning Edition. There isn’t any clearer demonstration than her performance that the only talking point the White House has left is “it’s all Al Qaeda and they’re all coming to kill us”. I thought he did an excellent job of repeatedly and pointedly asking her about the obvious inconsistencies between that last remaining talking point and the real facts of life, including an administration intelligence official saying that Al Qaeda didn’t even exist in Iraq before we invaded. It was an interesting performance watching her refuse to answer the specifics of his questions in the most lame, ham-handed fashion possible. If this is the Bush-era “Best and Brightest”, we are truly screwed…
Actually, she is a competent person who has allowed partisan loyalty overcome reality. Maybe it’s the “lawyer mentality” that causes her to frame her “client’s case” in this manner.