Osama's Curious Timing
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I'm not a tin foil hat type, but if I were, I'd sure be uppity about the timing of the audio message purportedly from Osama Bin Laden assuring America and the world that more attacks are in the works but that they could be averted via some sort of "truce."
Just when the outrage (and the criticism by legal analysts) over the warrantless wiretapping scandal is gaining momentum, and just when Vice President Cheney is issuing statements insisting that the program is "vital," voila: here's a recording — open-ended, nebulous and undated — of the Terrorist-in-Chief saying exactly, exactly, what an apologist for the NSA program would want him to say, exactly when he would want him to say it.
How convenient.
So too with the "truce" gobbledygook — "See, they're only offering a truce because we're winning. The program works. We need to continue it. You don't want another 9/11, do you?"
How convenient.
But like I said, I'm not a tin foil hat type. The Occam's Razor answer is not that this is a vast White House conspiracy, but simply a narrow al Qaeda conspiracy. The timing isn't just good for the Administration, it's also good for the terrorists. Remember, the goal of the Islamofascists is not really to destroy us — they can't and they know it. The simply want to destroy our way of life.
And, considering the nature of the NSA scandal and the other collateral damage to our civil liberties resulting from the PATRIOT Act and the other prongs of the War on Terror, some might argue that the terrorists are succeeding.
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Meanwhile, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has issued a 42-page, single-space document attempting to defend the legality of the NSA warrantless wiretap program. Of course, when the story first broke, we were told that the President's authority in the area was "inherent." So "inherent" that a major independently prepared report for Congress has said otherwise, and so "inherent" that a 42-page, single-space document is needed to clarify the "inherent" authority. Go figure. (PDF available here.)
Just when the outrage (and the criticism by legal analysts) over the warrantless wiretapping scandal is gaining momentum, and just when Vice President Cheney is issuing statements insisting that the program is "vital," voila: here's a recording — open-ended, nebulous and undated — of the Terrorist-in-Chief saying exactly, exactly, what an apologist for the NSA program would want him to say, exactly when he would want him to say it.
How convenient.
So too with the "truce" gobbledygook — "See, they're only offering a truce because we're winning. The program works. We need to continue it. You don't want another 9/11, do you?"
How convenient.
But like I said, I'm not a tin foil hat type. The Occam's Razor answer is not that this is a vast White House conspiracy, but simply a narrow al Qaeda conspiracy. The timing isn't just good for the Administration, it's also good for the terrorists. Remember, the goal of the Islamofascists is not really to destroy us — they can't and they know it. The simply want to destroy our way of life.
And, considering the nature of the NSA scandal and the other collateral damage to our civil liberties resulting from the PATRIOT Act and the other prongs of the War on Terror, some might argue that the terrorists are succeeding.
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Meanwhile, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has issued a 42-page, single-space document attempting to defend the legality of the NSA warrantless wiretap program. Of course, when the story first broke, we were told that the President's authority in the area was "inherent." So "inherent" that a major independently prepared report for Congress has said otherwise, and so "inherent" that a 42-page, single-space document is needed to clarify the "inherent" authority. Go figure. (PDF available here.)
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- Osama's Curious Timing
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- Rice on Domestic Spying: "Just Trust Us"
Posted by Kip on
20 January 2006
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