Monday, July 12, 2004

Emergency Powers: Some officials in the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have had preliminary discussions about postponing the national elections if a major terrorist attack were to occur. (You may recall that September 11, 2001, was the day of New York's primary election, which had to be delayed)

This seems to be prudent discussion of a worst-case scenario that will never actually come about. Which makes me wonder why CNN is giving this top play on its Web site (I won't go into Drudge's news judgement). Conspiracy theorists already have enough fodder. I don't want to hear Michael Moore using this as evidence that Bush is planning to use terrorism as an excuse to delay the elections, so he can hold onto power indefinitely.