Investigating themselves

This was pure show gone wrong. Frist and Haestert, in an effort to deflect publicity from the investigations they've failed to do so far, took up the mantle and declared an investigation on the recent leak the United States has prisons in foreign countries in order to question terrorist suspects. You can see now that while Bush has said that we don't use torture, this means that others technically could in our name.

Nonetheless, the right wing bloggers rejoiced. Powerline shouted "Hallelujah," Hugh Hewitt wrote "Good," and Blogs for Bush, for some reason, warned lefties that they had, "asked for this." I guess in a sense it was true, as any leak should probably be looked into. But I'm not sure why this was such a dire warning for Democrats in general.

So when this hit CNN a few hours ago, how so you think Frist and Haestert, and the rightospehere felt?

The gist is, for those of you who don't want to watch the video, Trent Lott is claiming now that a lot of the wording used in the article was the same as wording used in a Republican meeting on the issue of black ops prisons the day before the story hit the Washington Post. Lott claims a Republican Senator may be at the heart of this leak, further damaging the image of the GOP in the Senate.

Of course, this is just one man's word. And it is Trent Lott, so take the report with a grain of salt. I just can't imagine that the GOP leadership would do something like this without looking into it a bit more beforehand.