Wednesday, September 27, 2006

THE SECRET'S OUT. ... SO WHY WAS IT A SECRET IN THE FIRST PLACE ?

Seeking to quell disturbing news reports quoting a classified NSIE report that the president's war in Iraq has actually increased the risk of terrorism rather than decreased it, the First Moron this week declassified more of the report in hopes of turning the political spin back in his direction.
While it failed to do so, it did slow the negative spin to something less than tornadic speeds. But it also spawned other questions about the president's conduct that will not be good for the party on the edge of the election. Among those questions are why the report was secret in the first place. From what we've seen so far, there is nothing in the report that would threaten national security if it were made public. So that, combined with the fact that the president had no problem declassifying more of the document, makes us wonder if its classification was not based upon national security concerns but upon political concerns in an election year.
It also makes us wonder what else the Whitehouse is hiding under that blanket of national security that is more properly in the domain of public information.

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