Pandagon

I've seen this, and I'm a bit confused. This guy had all this stuff from FOIA requests, right? So the originals should still be at the Hoover Building (or wherever), right? And why would someone steal what they could just FOIA? Or, what they could just ask this guy to copy for them?

Does anyone know the answer to these questions?

Conspiracy:
1)An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2) A group of conspirators.
3) Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4) A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.

My point being, that people have done to the word conspiracy, what they've done to the word liberal. History is full of conspiracies. There has never been a period of time, in any government, where there hasn't been two or more people planning an illegal activity.

In this case, I'll bet more than one person conspired to do the break in. I won't suggest that it was the RNC or Baby Bush's administration behind it, though that of course, there is historical precedent for the possiblity.

It will be interesting to see where the information surfaces first. But it is ironic that Kerry's have been stolen, and Baby Bush's are hidden.

Thing is, if the Bush Admin wanted to look at Kerry's FBI files, I presume they'd get them and do just that. (I bet they're combing through them right now, actually). So. . . I'm a bit puzzled as to who would steal these.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm blaming Ann Coulter. Not for any particular reason, I just don't like her.

Honestly though? No idea.

Oooh, me first! Why would "they" do this? No paper trail! Sure, "they" could get everything from the FBI (including anything still classified) but "they" would expose themselves to the view of the public.

/dons tinfoil hat/

Well...look at it this way:

What if Kerry's original files come up missing, too? Then there's no record anywhere of these documents, leaving Rove and Co free to splatter mud as they will without any way of contradicting them.

/takes off tinfoil hat, puts on Cap o' Cynicism/

On the other hand, the guy who got robbed has a book out. What better publicity could he ask for?

I've read somewhere that that dear old J. Edgar ran up the FBI with the express intention of digging up dirt and eliminating enemies. So, I'd say the FBI stole them back, and they're sitting somewhere in Karl Rove's office (in the desk drawer under the pink feathered bustiers).

Chris --

I blame Bush, myself. My thinking is that so many things are his fault at this point, you might as well blame him by default. The odds are pretty much in your favor, and I can't get upset about one or two false accusations somewhere in the mountain of crimes.

Coulter works too. If nothing else, there's always the "at the very least she probably sort of sympathizes with the people who did it, and that's just as good as being guilty" position, which Coulter herself has always been happy to take.

This seems like something we should comment on...

You know what I blame this on the breakdown of? Society.