HEY! LOOK OVER HERE!

"Patriotic," democrats that ascribe to the Tellytubbies theory of national defense, have been desperate to find a distraction from The One's policies having put our economy in free-fall.

They found it. A phony "the CIA lied" story and a show trial.

Of course its BS, but that's not the point.

Andy McCarthy, from NRO:

...congressional Democrats knew about the program and knew that the dissent of the Justice Department's senior leadership in 2004 was not about warrantless surveillance. They knew that if they postured that the dissent was about warrantless surveillance, Gonzales — not an adept communicator — would not be able to rebut them in a public hearing because the details of the dispute were classified. Congressional Democrats also knew that President Bush agreed to make changes in the program in March 2004 to assuage DOJ's concerns, and they knew that the program activities continued thereafter for a year-and-a-half (i.e., until the Times blew part of the program) without incident and with bipartisan congressional leadership continuing to be briefed.

Of course, having been kept from another attack is immaterial and as we all know, now we don't need protection because Jugears has been running around bowing and apologizing. Bad people are not really bad. They just need a friend, and Der Messiah's love is giving them all they need not to want to ever hurt us again.