I just spit my morning coffee laughing at that.

One Old Vet

Just how many different ways has the Bush Administration tried to hide once-public information sources from the public record? Help us count the ways.

…Department of Defense has suddenly classified the numbers of attacks in Iraq for September through November of this year — after providing the figures for every month since the war began. Why classify the information now? If there’s a good explanation, we don’t know it, and the Pentagon isn’t returning our calls.

As others have noted, it’s far from the first time that the administration has tried to deep-six data that was unhelpful to its goals. Over the years, they’ve discontinued annual reports, classified normally public data, de-funded studies, quieted underlings, and generally done whatever was necessary to keep bad information under wraps…

Click the link if you want real examples of an imperial presidency. I would hope that patriots on both sides of the aisle would be outraged by the list.

I’m getting toasted tonight.

Besides, if you had wanted to go you’d have to drive down to George Bush Intercontinental Airport and then fly to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and then drive to Baltimore.

It’s much too imperial of an event to go to all that trouble.