2005-10-17
Political Timing of the Terror Threats?
Keith Olbermann: Last Thursday on Countdown, I referred to the latest terror threat - the reported bomb plot against the New York City subway system - in terms of its timing. President Bush’s speech about the war on terror had come earlier the same day, as had the breaking news of the possible indictment of Karl Rove in the CIA leak investigation. I suggested that in the last three years there had been about 13 similar coincidences - a political downturn for the administration, followed by a “terror event” - a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning.
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I will not defend Bush against charges that he or his people have released terror warnings at times that would help rally public opinion. The most recent case -- the NYC subway scare -- seems unlikely, since local people seem to have done that , in response to learning that some in their ranks had sent email warnings. Has Bush done this previous times? I don't know. Doesn't seem to be a sophisticated or effective mechanism of managing approval.
"Doesn't seem to be a sophisticated or effective mechanism of managing approval."
But then the Bush administration is not know for its sophistication or effectiveness, is it?
I agree that just because something is ineffective and unsophisticated that this does not disqualify it as something that the Bushies would do. Torturing prisoners, color-coded warnings, restricted taliban travel, forming a Homeland Security beurocracy, and other rights infringement, etc., all qualify as ineffective and unsophisticated, and certainly the Bushies have done this.
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