Looking Past the Shiny Things
Posted by MEC on March 17, 2007
So the Busheviks attempted to distract from Abu Gonzales’ little personnel problems and Libby’s guilty verdicts and Valerie Plame Wilson’s testimony by playing the “Look! Shiny things! A terrorost!” card, releasing Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s confession to everything from plotting the 9/11 attacks to kidnapping the Lindbergh baby.
Let’s hear an “Oops!” for the Busheviks.
First, the distraction didn’t work. The scandals are still in the headlines.
And now people are starting to pay attention to the real news buried in the confession.
Senators Levin (D-MI) and Graham (R-SC) are saying that Mohammed’s allegations that he was abused by his captors should be taken seriously and investigated. Since Senator Levin chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, I predict he’s going to make sure that investigation happens.
And a quick scan of Google News shows that the news media are beginning to raise questions about that “confession”. So instead of being a useful distraction, it could become another scandal for Bush.
2 Responses to “Looking Past the Shiny Things”
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Phoenix Woman said
Yeah, and apparently these “confessions” are old news — my spouse heard Daniel Schorr say on NPR that these were made some time ago but that the Bush Junta had sat on them.
MEC said
“my spouse heard Daniel Schorr say on NPR that these were made some time ago but that the Bush Junta had sat on them.”
Waiting until it was needed, eh? Shades of John Ashcroft.