In today’s Washington Post, we find this, CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry.
Coming in the middle of the “Cheney is not part of the Executive Branch” stupidity, this has to seen as just another version of “Clinton did it, too!”
Ah, but this one doesn’t even deflect sideways, to something Gonzales couldn’t remember or some other illegal program. I mean, how better to deflect attention than to point at earlier administrations and their dirty laundry? It actually might get attention on Kennedy or Johnson or some other DEMOCRATS! Even pointing at Ike or Tricky Dicky is better than another deflection within this administration. At some point, you just run out of internal deflections and diversions – one administration can only have so many FUBARs, you know.
Who CARES about the CIA dirty laundry that was addressed by FISA and the other actions of the 1970s?
Bush cares! The only use of history is to USE it, and the best way to USE it is to draw attention away from failing imperial occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the almost uncountable scandals and incompetencies of BUSHCO.
In running Arbusto into the ground when Bush – as chief executive (hahahaha!) – in his earlier cocaine snorting days, Bush’s big diversion was, “Hey! LOOK! My dad is George HW Bush!” At which point, someone would fork over some dough, hoping to cash in on the Bush connections with the Saudis or inside the government. Dubya would then take his diversion to the bank and use it to con someone else down the road.
Then, he hired a professional diverter, one who planted a bug in his own candidate’s office so that it could be blamed on the opponent. Someone with a wierd first name that came from somebody named Marx other than Groucho or Zeppo or Harpo. Someone named Karl.
THIS HAS ROVE WRITTEN ALL OVER IT.
And you just watch:
In the next 7-10 days, attention will be on history, not Cheney’ fuckup.
