Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Flash! Keller Comes Clean!
Finally admits that the banking story wasn't exactly news as it had been publicly discussed. But where was that story in the Times? (And yes, it could well have been there and I missed it; OTOH, it's as much a front page story as the initial story -- properly -- was.)
CORRECTION: Now I've the read the "Face the Nation" transcript and Keller seems to come up with every defense but that it was all old news. Indeed, he claims the pols that were on the Times had not been briefed on SWIFT snooping -- the implication being that Keller and the pols are all out of it, unaware of the news of the world. Again, it's clear that Pinch got the exec ed he, but not the readers, wants and deserves: as dumb and ignorant as himself, someone who doesn't make him look as bad as as he is, someone he doesn't need to look up to. Why should Pinch pull himself up when he can just surround himself with incompetents and mediocrities?
CORRECTION: Now I've the read the "Face the Nation" transcript and Keller seems to come up with every defense but that it was all old news. Indeed, he claims the pols that were on the Times had not been briefed on SWIFT snooping -- the implication being that Keller and the pols are all out of it, unaware of the news of the world. Again, it's clear that Pinch got the exec ed he, but not the readers, wants and deserves: as dumb and ignorant as himself, someone who doesn't make him look as bad as as he is, someone he doesn't need to look up to. Why should Pinch pull himself up when he can just surround himself with incompetents and mediocrities?
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