Bullshitting continues on the notion of creating a new intelligence czar. And that's all it is: bullshit. But it's getting lots of attention. Why? Well, my feeling is that it's all a smokescreen. Creating a new intelligence post seems like it'd be something fairly simple. We'll just add some new level of bureaucracy that won't do a fucking thing, kinda like when America woke up one morning and we had Tom Ridge.

Bush has agreed to the idea "in principle." Which means that Bush is working hard on the issue as usual because he's smart and he gives a shit. Congress is holding hearings and shit, which allows them to avoid doing real work on something hard like, say, reforming congressional oversight of intelligence.

I do agree with Rumsfeld, at least on principle. We of course don't want to do this in a manner that causes us to fuck it all up. Of course, Rummy is just engaging in one of the biggest things threatening us today: bullshit turf wars. All these cocksuckers care more about Number One than doing anything to make this country safer.

This, of course, is not a startling revelation. That's politics and, more generally, human nature. But can we stop being stupid and believing them when they say that they're working hard to protect us because they care?