Is ABC's The Blotter Really This Dumb?

ABC's The Blotter is actually running the story:

Are GOP Leaders Leaking State Secrets?

In an opinion article published in the New York Post Thursday, Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., reported the top-secret budget for human spying had decreased -- the type of detail normally kept under wraps for national security reasons.

Oh, you mean like this from the WaPo in 2004 when the Dems were trying to smear Porter Goss?

Goss Backed '95 Bill to Slash Intelligence
Plan Would Have Cut Personnel 20%

Which also includes this gem:

The Bush reelection campaign has been blasting Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry as deeply irresponsible for proposing intelligence cuts at the same time. A Bush campaign ad released on Aug. 13 carried a headline: "John Kerry . . . proposed slashing Intelligence Budget 6 Billion Dollars."

But the cuts Goss supported are larger than those proposed by Kerry and specifically targeted the "human intelligence" that has recently been found lacking. The recent report by the commission probing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks called for more spending on human intelligence.

Kerry, in September 1995, proposed a five-year, $1.5 billion cut in the intelligence budget, about 1 percent of the overall intelligence budget.

Or pick one of hundreds of other stories on intelligence cuts, or just deal with a slow news day and try to not take your tips from Raw Story. Doh!

Hoekstra's apparent slip was first noted on the liberal Web site, Raw Story.

Comments

[crosspatch]

The Blotter is not news, it is political propaganda. I make a point NOT to read it several times a day. In fact, I am not reading it right now and I didn't read it earlier today and I certainly will make a point not to read it tomorrow too. I don't read it all the time. I find that I stay much better informed that way.