Bush Administration: Your Government at Work

The Bush administration has repeatedly interfered with the work and staff of the CIA but it has also interfered with British investigations. In 2004, somebody in the White House (Karl Rove perhaps?) outed a double agent in Pakistan in an attempt to steal headlines from the Democrats during their convention. The British were not happy since it interfered with an investigation and cut off an important source of information. It has happened again. Justin Rood of TPMMuckraker reports:

Last week I noted the curious silence from the Bush administration about leaks to the press that appeared potentially damaging to the ongoing investigation of the British "liquid terror" plot.

Not everyone has been so sanguine as the White House, apparently. British counterterror police have angrily requested the FBI quit leaking sensitive information about the ongoing probes, according to the British paper, the Observer...

Apparently, publicity about catching terrorists is more important to Bush and Karl Rove than the reality of catching terrorists. There's growing evidence, however, that Americans aren't buying the scare tactics anymore. Terrorism is real but Americans are getting tired of being manipulated around the issue.