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......to my thinking, that the idea of a commission was crafted as a vehicle for an attack on President Bush in the first place. One of my first pieces of evidence of my case is the leaking of the existance of that August 2001 PDB that was mischaracterized as "Bush Knew" we were about to be attacked with airplanes. That PDB was used to flog the commission into existance. From there, we know the rest and we watched that cast of characters; BenVeniste, Roemer, Kerrey, Gorelick, (and our own "let's be fair and hear all looneytunes crackpot theories so we're not called haters!" Republicans like Kean) in horror.

You might have something there. Inspired by Miss M, my research on Free Republic came up with this.

Listless Kerry
American Spectator | 8/31/04 | The Prowler
Posted on 08/31/2004 4:02:13 AM PDT by kattracks

WINDLESS

On a Sunday when most national news was focused on New York and the Republican Convention, it could not have been a more perfect day in Massachusetts. There, standing by the shore, about a quarter mile from Sen. John Kerry's Nantucket estate, reporters watched as the Democratic presidential candidate attempted to hit the water and windsurf.

In mid-August, with the exception of the Gallup poll, there was not a national poll that did not have John Kerry leading George W. Bush. But about as fast as you can say Swift Boat Veterans for Transforming a Presidential Election, Kerry and his crew find themselves in disarray.

On Monday in Washington meetings were being held behind closed doors at the Kerry campaign, looking for ways to get its candidate and operation back on message. There were rumors circulating mid-day Monday of "major shakeups" in the campaign, according to a Kerry adviser.

Candidate Kerry, who after flailing about in the tides of Nantucket on Sunday quickly returned to his home, was on the phone for much of Monday attempting to shore up support and encourage surrogate attacks against his opponent on a day that showed support for him crumbling around the edges in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Ohio, all states that Kerry led in by as many as seven percentage points just two weeks ago.

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SABOTEURS

Some senior members of the Kerry campaign were aware of the FBI investigation into the possible passage of U.S. documents related to Iran to Israel by a U.S. citizen. "It's not a coincidence that this story dropped on Friday, three days before the Republican convention," says a Kerry adviser in New York. "If the Republicans can do it to Sandy Berger, we can do it to them." No word on where the leak originated.

That the leak may have short-circuited an ongoing investigation seems to matter little to the Kerry campaign, which has recently been declining national security briefings because it can't find the time to build them into Sen. John Kerry's travel schedule. Other briefings have been delayed or canceled over wrangling about how many Kerry staffers would be allowed to participate in the briefings.