[OReilly]

WUSA, Channel 9 in DC, released a report signed by the news director that Mike Buchannan was the reporter who broke the story. Mike is the fire, storm, accident, and disaster reporter and very good at his craft. He called the Montgomery County police and announced (as in All The President's Men style) we are going with the tarot card story, unless you can convince us not to.

After no response, it hit the news.

The Washington Post had two independent sources and called the Police to tell them it was going to press unless they made an successful argument.

Then the news breaks and we get the hystreonics from the Moose. We've seen a couple of days of this from him. Does he have a history of doing this?

[Merovingian]

interesting

[alrea]

we are going with the tarot card story

which is obviously so silly that it may be planted to divert. or encourage a claim of responsibility.

[OReilly]

At one of this afternoon's press conferences, a reporter asked Moose to explain how the Tarot card disclosure damaged the investigation. (the reporter said nicely, I hope the question doesn't get you upset)

Moose's answer was incoherent, unintelligible, and mispronounced.

[Route66]

Hope you don't mind...Sent you a freepmail.

[browardchad]

This is the second time Moose has messed with the media. The first was on Friday, in believe, when his office released info about a missing person (who subsequently turned out to be completely unrelated to the shootings, and has been released). He admitted on Saturday morning that his office had released the info, and that he had later tried to stop the info from being printed, but "people weren't answering their phones at 2 a.m." (Implying that if he was up all night, why wasn't the media?)

As far as his criticism of profilers, Moose was the one promising an FBI profile by 5 p.m. on Friday, only to be told by the FBI that they couldn't profile a perp on which they had virtually no info. Failing that, he dragged out a "geographic profiler" from Canada, making a dog and pony show out of it on Saturday. The killer then struck again on Monday, in a different location.

On Monday, he assured the world at 7 a.m. that the schools were perfectly safe, and an hour later the killer struck, at a school, in that different location.

There's nothing like accusing the press of messing up a case to distract attention from your own mistakes. I don't think the killer is so much listening to the talking heads as he/she is listening to what Moose has to say, and mocking him. Maybe Moose should just shut up.