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Correctly stated.

I want to address the timing on all this. And the obvious coordinated effort by all to hype this story.

Monday Bush announces Hayden for job...much talk about his involvement in NSA and the Dems might go after him on it.

Tuesday Hayden is seen meeting with senators on the hill and during press conferences Dems are asked if they are going to grill him on the NSA wire tapping thing. It felt odd but all the Democratic senators were all saying things like " oh well we are just going to look at the man being sent up for us to approve...we will get into that stuff another time". If you watched the newscasts the reporters and the anchors were all saying that it looks like smooth sailing for Hayden.

Wednesday USA Today " reprints" old news as some new revelation about an old program and the Dems act all aghast and need to get to the bottom of this...bla bla blah...

Alot have speculated on the timing because it was meant to derail Hayden. OH quite the contrary...this was a hit piece put out by a paper not exactly in the liberal spotlight like the NYT or the WPO with the expressed purpose of giving the Democrats cover ( because they need to frame the debate first otherwise they lose) so they can now go after Bush ( not Hayden) on this program.

Thursday ABC has an " overnight" poll that confirms what we already know...so what was this poll for and how do we know it was not already in the works? Well the point of the poll was to give the Democrats a " temperature" of the public. The poll was meant to help them find what words and terms they need to use to drive the polls in their favor. This has nothing to do with Hayden. As you will see....even during the Sunday shows Haydens name only came up in passing...the conversations all ended on how all this plays out in '06. Okay now this leads us to Sunday. The New York Times now prints an article showing that Dick Cheyney was demanding domestic spying and phone tapping of basically anyone.... Treason is a big thing. I don't use that term lightly. But these "leaks" are so well timed it is amazing. They always coincide with the agenda of the day for the Democrats. In fact the papers are now offering the Democrats cover because now they can say " well it's not us saying that heck it's in the paper this morning".