Through a Looking Glass

It's always fun to see what the mushroom-crowd is hallucinating and no one is more qualified to blow horse manure onto the post-8/10 discussion than wannabe Yale perfessor Deformed Comment.

This preposterous little feller believes that

US authorities were only told about some details two weeks ago, apparently.....It may be that the British counter-terrorism community learned its lesson from the loose lips of the Bushies in summer of 2004. I argued then that from what we could tell from open sources, it seemed likely that the Bush administration played politics with information about a double agent in Pakistan who was helping monitor a London al-Qaeda cell.

Then the deconstructor reveals his source, the Financial Times, and quotes a refutation to what he just said in the previous paragraph:

British police had liaised closely with US law enforcement agencies for some time, although US officials said they learnt the intelligence pointed to threats against specific US airlines only in the past two weeks. '

So the US and UK were liasing all along, and the info on the identity of US planes may have come about because the UK police just came upon the info themselves.

But this pompous living testimonial to academic fraud and incompetence continues to enthrall the ultra-left, itself in thrall to a mass-psychosis that "if we just leave them alone, maybe they'll go away" alternating with "it's all Bush's fault."

Of course, the learned expert does not point out that the 1995 Bojinka plot has eerie similarities to the 8/10 plot busted yesterday. Or that the Al Qaeda attacked the WTC in 1993 to the profound indifference of the Clintonistas, who concentrated on the legal aspects of picking up terrorists---would the judges permit this or that?

Cole natters on with a completely inane comment on how soldiers in Iraq can't stop terrorism, but read his demented comment column to get a taste of how dementia operates among "deformed commenters."