July 8
A story in today's New Republic and trailed pretty well on CNN's Newsnight last night, claims that leading figures in Pakistani intelligence have been put under pressure by the Bush administration to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden or one of his key deputies ahead of the election and, preferably, during the Democratic convention.
The article - entitled 'July Surprise' - quotes an intelligence official as saying he was told by a "White House aide" that "it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any] HVT (high value target) were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July".
The White House, of course, denied that activities in the so-called war on terror are geared around the electoral calendar.
Elsewhere, there's a nice piece in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune profiling Jim Johnson, the man who led Kerry's VP search.
The Kerry-Edwards roadshow heads to the Radio City Music Hall in New York City tonight for a mega-fundraiser. The Boston Globe highlights some of the performers who've been active for the candidates, while Backstreets, the Bruce Springsteen fan site, identifies that both men share a liking for the Boss.
(We mentioned yesterday that Kerry had taken the stage to announce his choice of Edwards to the strains of Bruce's "Land Of Hope And Dreams".)
Fox News has been giving plenty of play to the newly-minted Democratic ticket, with the unflappable Carl Cameron doing his usual stand-up job. Back in the studio, though, the pundits are taking every available opportunity, it seems, to slip in that the Kerry-Edwards ticket is "the most liberal ticket since Mondale and Ferraro".
And, er, uh-oh....
A story in today's New Republic and trailed pretty well on CNN's Newsnight last night, claims that leading figures in Pakistani intelligence have been put under pressure by the Bush administration to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden or one of his key deputies ahead of the election and, preferably, during the Democratic convention.
The article - entitled 'July Surprise' - quotes an intelligence official as saying he was told by a "White House aide" that "it would be best if the arrest or killing of [any] HVT (high value target) were announced on twenty-six, twenty-seven, or twenty-eight July".
The White House, of course, denied that activities in the so-called war on terror are geared around the electoral calendar.
Elsewhere, there's a nice piece in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune profiling Jim Johnson, the man who led Kerry's VP search.
The Kerry-Edwards roadshow heads to the Radio City Music Hall in New York City tonight for a mega-fundraiser. The Boston Globe highlights some of the performers who've been active for the candidates, while Backstreets, the Bruce Springsteen fan site, identifies that both men share a liking for the Boss.
(We mentioned yesterday that Kerry had taken the stage to announce his choice of Edwards to the strains of Bruce's "Land Of Hope And Dreams".)
Fox News has been giving plenty of play to the newly-minted Democratic ticket, with the unflappable Carl Cameron doing his usual stand-up job. Back in the studio, though, the pundits are taking every available opportunity, it seems, to slip in that the Kerry-Edwards ticket is "the most liberal ticket since Mondale and Ferraro".
And, er, uh-oh....
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