Able Danger vs. "Leakgate"

On Tuesday Republican Congressman Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania held another press conference to try and keep the Able Danger scandal from drowning in the anonymity with which it has been relentlessly inundated by the to-be-expected Extreme Media blackout.

Weldon didn't shed much additional light on the matter, but then additional light really shouldn't be necessary in light of what is already known. And it certainly wouldn't be necessary if the Democrats could use it as another propaganda truncheon against President Bush.

That would seem to be the answer to Cap'n Ed's plaintive question:

With the DIA smearing one of the whistleblowers and the Pentagon blocking Congressional investigations, it certainly appears that Weldon is right about the cover-up. If Able Danger was "simply irrelevant", we would have had a hearing in no time on it and allowed it to pass discredited into history. Instead, both the Pentagon and the Congress appear scared to death of Able Danger. Why?

Because this is a Clinton scandal that the Bush Administration is helping to cover up, that's why. And because it's a Clinton scandal it will never be pursued by the Extreme press.

Compare this to the whole, entire, exaggerated, overblown, trumped up "Plamegate" kerfuffle and you'll learn all you never wanted to know about how out of whack priorities are inside the Beltway - and yet another reason why turning national power back over to the Democrat Party any time soon would be positively suicidal.