The Nexus of Politics and Terror

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Basically a transcript of a piece shown on last night's "Countdown," Keith Olbermann's blog today features the excellent and interesting breakdown of the coincidental timing between terror alerts and politically dicey situations for the Bush administration. The point, as Olbermann points out, is not to say that there is a connection between the two, but merely to spotlight the odd correlation.

Preceding the timeline, Olbermann cites a quote by Tom Ridge discussing how readily some were to raise the terror alert level for questionable reasons. A more apt quote, perhaps, can be cited from another source:

"Why does a dog wag its tail? Because the dog is smarter than its tail. If the tail were smarter, the tail would wag the dog."