TPM: The Democratic Convention and an October Surprise (!)

[oldhat]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_07_04.php#003133

A couple months ago, in passing, I noted that the Bush
administration had been leaning heavily on the
Pakistanis to produce some high-value al Qaida
bad-guys -- bin Laden? Mullah Omar? Zawahiri? -- at
the end of July, nicely timed to knock the Democratic
convention seriously off-stride, and certainly, if at
all possible, before the November election.

Well, tomorrow The New Republic is going to release a
story -- written by recent TPM guest bloggers John
Judis and Spencer Ackerman and another colleague --
which provides considerably more evidence and detail
about what they've been up to.

I'm told Judis and Ackerman have mulitple Pakistani
intelligence sources confirming key details.

If only baggin OBL had been such a priority for them
in early '02. But, alas, Iraq called. And priorities
are priorities.

[MGKrebs]

1. I'm not certain what to do, but we KNOW this is going to happen.

What should we do?
"October Surprise" T-shirts?
LTTE?

The only "counter" to the October Surprise that I can think of is to make people aware that it is coming, so that when it does, it will be seen for what it is- a cynical political manipulation of a (probably) major security situation.

I suppose we should also be ready to take to the streets at a moments notice.

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