This Shit Is Getting Out Of Control

Matt Drudge is leading today with a conspiracy theory about Nancy Pelosi.

[insert snarky right-wing 'tin foil hat' comment here]

Perhaps Mr. Drudge should stick to doing Sen. Allen's dirty work, spinning away the Foley scandal, scaring people about Iran, and attempting to debunk global warming. His Pelosi headlines are always pretty silly.

However, he was also hyping this NY Times piece last night, though I don't know why-

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.”...

Bold added by moi. No doubt Sen. Santorum and Rep. Hoekstra think we found the WMDs again or something.

And the Saddam verdict is just two days away. That should bring out Drudge's siren.

Is it November 7th yet? I just can't take it all anymore.

[PS- There is another NY Times article today that to me seems equally newsworthy (but less hyped) because it speaks volumes about how this administration has demonized transparency and accountability... it reveals that a recent military authorization bill passed by Congress and signed by the President "terminates [a] federal oversight agency, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, on Oct. 1, 2007" which was run by "a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by well-connected companies like Halliburton and Parsons, and discovered that the military did not properly track hundreds of thousands of weapons it shipped to Iraqi security forces." The report further adds that "The clause was inserted by the Republican side of the House Armed Services Committee over the objections of Democratic counterparts during a closed-door conference, and it has generated surprise and some outrage among lawmakers who say they had no idea it was in the final legislation."

Had enough?]