Prometheus 6

You know why all this stuff from 2004 is popping up? Because I'm a slave to fashion.

You remember how every 5 minutes in 2004 we got a TERROR ALERT from Homeland Security, and then after Bush was re-elected the TERROR ALERTs seemed to go away? And then Tom Ridge admitted that at least a few of them were politically motivated?

Welcome back.

“The White House said Monday it agreed with an assessment by U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who warns terrorists could test the next president with an attack.”

The likelihood of this working this time is essentially zero (nobody trusts the party of Katrina and Iraq with their security anymore) but it is a pretty perverse thing for a government to be engaged in.

It really is. Consider the thought of getting folks to trust you then willfully lying to them, consciously constructing a false view of the world, being shameless enough to defend your right to lie to those who trust you, just to get your way...

This is as close to objective evil as I am willing to admit exists.