Politics

In an effort to take credit for combating terror and to duck criticism about the latest round of years-old terror warnings, the Bush Administration leaked the name of Al-Qaeda mole Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan who was cooperating with Pakistani authorities in a sting operation against Al-Qaeda that has since gone sour because of the leak. The information was given to the New York Times by a White House official.
MSNBC reported Monday that the early exposure of Khan not only ended the sting that Pakistani intelligence was conducting, but it also forced Britain’s intelligence service to move faster than it wanted to last Tuesday to apprehend terror suspects in England that had been e-mailed by Khan. Five other suspects were able to escape before British authorities could arrest them.
Way to go guys. Dumbasses.

This Modern World has a great post on an upcoming Bush campaign strategy… they have a push by the Office of Homeland Security to make September “National Preparedness Month” which will include a month-long calendar of events on preparing citizens for terrorist attacks.
The problem with this is that some of the events they have planned for “National Preparedness” are occurring only in swing states where the election is still up for grabs and where Bush is polling low.
Hey, Tom Ridge, your panties are showing.
In other news, for some swing states where Bush is polling low, the FBI is predicting that Terrorists are going to attack using Limousines.

First, you may have heard that the recent terror alerts for financial institutions in New York and Washington were based on intelligence that was more than four years old, some of it even prior to 9/11. Can you say “campaign stunt” anyone? This probably is in reaction to the fact that Kerry is massively up in the polls.
Also, you might have noticed an article recently explaining that two of Cheney’s recent campaign rallies screened the attendees before the event to ensure party loyalty. Nice.

iTunes makes all of the speeches from the Democratic National Convention available free for download. If you haven’t heard Barack Obama speak, download his speech; it’s amazing. I also deeply enjoyed Jimmy Carter.
Yes, I have copies of all them.
Also, the 9/11 Commission report is a free download as well.

If you want to catch Fox News/George W. Bush/right-wing nutjobs in lies every single day, several times a day, check out the Media Matters website, which checks out what “THEY” say, and then shows you the video or audio footage of the real live event, so you can see for yourself the bullshit they perpetrate.
For example, FOX’s Barone said Kerry audience was “silent” on military-strength line — but in reality, the audience cheered at that line, which you can plainly see for yourself on the video provided.

A campaign worker for President Bush (news – web sites) said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones — or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better.
“Why don’t they get new jobs if they’re unhappy — or go on Prozac?” said Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt.
While recent employment growth has buoyed Bush’s economic record, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has argued the new jobs are not as good as those lost due to outsourcing in recent years.
Nearly 1.1 million jobs have been lost since Bush took office in January 2001.

Excerpt from Barack Obama’s speech last night at the Democratic National Convention: