The Rove administration’s attack on the NY Times as a cover for its mistakes is old news, Brummett writes today. Shadow President Rove floated the traitor line four months ago in Arkansas, along with other red meat served at a Republican fund-raising dinner.
Now the White House and its Republican congressional allies say the Times has alerted our terrorist enemies and made our job in the war on terror harder.
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But the professed idea from the beginning was to shut down Osama bin Laden’s normal banking channels.
Let’s put it this way: If these newspaper reports were news to bin Laden, we’d have caught the dumb rascal by now.
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We haven’t, you know, and it’s been nearly five years. Perhaps that’s why the Bush administration needs somebody to blame.