I Ain't Superstitious, But A Black Cat Has Crossed My Trail

(jjoats)

Why does it seem like every time the Bush administration gets some bad PR, a terror alert goes up within days? I think we all know the answer to that question. Keith Olbermann suggests that in the last three years there have been about 13 similar coincidences - a political downturn for the administration, followed by a “terror event” - a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning. He describes each of them in the article. Here's Number Two:

June 6th, 2002. Colleen Rowley, the FBI agent who tried to alert her superiors to the specialized flight training taken by Zacarias Moussaoui, whose information suggests the government missed a chance to break up the 9/11 plot, testifies before Congress. Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Graham says Rowley’s testimony has inspired similar pre-9/11 whistle-blowers.

June 10th, 2002. Four days later, speaking from Russia, Attorney General John Ashcroft reveals that an American named Jose Padilla is under arrest, accused of plotting a radiation bomb attack in this country. Padilla had, by this time, already been detained for more than a month.

As the approval rating continues to fall, Bush's handlers scramble to repair the damage. First the "terra" alert in New York. Then the photo op at a Habitat For Humanity site.


(jjoats)

Then trumping the race card by pulling a couple of really nervous black kids from a mostly white classroom. They should have made him pay them a fee for using them as props. The Lauratron doesn't look too happy in that picture either.