Posted by
Fatherof2 on Sunday, August 13, 2006 6:07:25 PM
Hoisted on his own petard
In an ironic turn of events the controversial NSA eavesdropping program instituted by the Bush administration has provided evidence of the President's role in fabricating this week's UK terror hoax. An overseas phone call between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair was inadvertently recorded by the top-secret program's monitoring equipment and demonstrates that the clearly agitated President wanted an immediate distraction created to save him from political events in the US.
The revelation that the terror plot uncovered in the UK was actually a hoax designed by the administration was originally reported in the DailyKos and was met with immediate concurrence from the "reality-based" community.
From the NSA transcript:
BUSH: Yo, Blair.
BLAIR: Hello Mr. President.
BUSH: We have a problem Blair...
BLAIR: It's Lamont, isn't it .
BUSH: Darn tootin' Blair. This Ned Lamont is a very serious threat to our sly Neo-con plan for world domination. I need something to distract folks from Lamont! A terrorist plot or something. Can you help?
BLAIR: I think I have just the thing Mr. President. There's this Pakistani cricket team I 'd love to get rid of...
BUSH: Yeah,yeah. Sounds good . Say they were gonna blow something up. Say they were gonna blow LOTS of things up!
BLAIR: Maybe airplanes...
BUSH: Yeah,yeah. Great! That's worked before.
BLAIR: I think we can do it. We may need to borrow Rove's mind-control machine for the next news cycle but it can be done.
BUSH: I'll check with Karl but I think he's busy manipulating left-wing bloggers to write anti-Semitic rants on the web this week. I'm not sure if it would work anyway. Those liberals have started wearing TWO layers of tin-foil on their heads to block Karl's mind ray. Drat those ingenious lefties!
BLAIR: A pox on them Mr President! But fear not! We'll have everyone in a state of fear by this time tomorrow...
BUSH:..and nobody will be thinking about Ned Lamont! Heh heh!
BLAIR: Yes indeed...hey will you be attending the Illuminati Pot-Luck Dinner next week?
BUSH: Wouldn't miss it for the world! I just hope Cheney doesn't bring that damn tuna casserole again..
BLAIR: (unintelligible)
The full transcript is expected to be published shortly in the NY Times and USA Today.
The NSA program is designed to intercept calls originating in the US to terrorists suspects overseas. An NSA spokesman explained that Mr Blair's home phone number had been mistakenly placed on the monitoring list after it had been discovered on George Gallloway's "Friends and Family" contact list.