What Taxpayer Funded Report?

This is classic Bush b.s.

Remember the report I wrote about yesterday that concluded there was no operational link between Saddam's Iraq and bin Laden's al Qaida? It was the second government report in as many years which concluded such. This morning the Pentagon said it will cancel the press release of the report and will no longer make the report available online.

The report was to be posted on the Joint Forces Command website this afternoon, followed by a background briefing with the authors. No more. The report will be made available only to those who ask for it, and it will be sent via U.S. mail from Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia.

It won't be emailed to reporters and it won't be posted online.

Next to destroying the report, which would be illegal, this is Bush's best option regarding access to the report. My suspicions are that the report was ordered, conducted and financed in hopes that by 2008 some good news would be available to report. News in regard to the Grand Surge and our Leaders ability to be a war president. But that didn't happen. So since it's already completed and parts already leaked to the press, squelch it as much as possible. Of course this won't keep it out of the publics hands, but it's Bush's best legal option at this point.

On the other hand, if the report contains nothing new and nothing politically damaging, why not release it? The article I link to does say a copy of the report on a CD can be mailed to anyone wishing to have one. I'm going to take them up on that.