Hey, Matt. Great idea!
On the outside chance that there's anyone who reads this blog who doesn't check Welch's blog first, there's a lot of great stuff up there now, including an absorbing, continuing tale (a couple of posts so far) of a crazy/threatening email from the wife of a guy who works for a government intelligence agency I'd never heard of. She's threatening to have her husband start investigating and harassing him. So far, the husband has remained silent. It's in "retaliation" for that piece on Patriot II that I noted before.
She sounds like a crank, and I imagine that a real sinister government agency might use less inept methods of intimidating the press. If I had received an email like that, I'd be laughing one moment, flapping around hysterically the next, wondering if all my paranoid friends might be right after all. Matt, more "together" than me in every way I can discern, sends replies, cc's them to the appropriate important people, documents it publicly-- all the things I'd never think of doing. I'm going to save his posts as a sort manual for future reference.
I don't know if this cranky lady is for real, but if so, I keep imagining it as a kind of I Love Lucy scenario.
Ricky is just trying to do his job intimidating and harassing journalists. Lucy hates being left out, keeps trying to butt in, sneaking on to the abuse of power "stage" (wearing a big mustache or something.) Agent Ricky is, well, let's just say the guys at "the club" don't like it much.
"Ai yi yi, Lucy, Lucy, Lucy... I tell you once, I tol' you a thousand times-- stop writing threatening emails to the targets!"
Lucy makes that mime-crying "waah" face, saying she was only trying to help. (Anyway, all she really wanted to do was to contrive a way to meet John Poindexter, the famous intelligence man and power abuser. He's so dreamy...)
"Don't you love me?"
Fred over at Disinformation leans over and says "you'll never get out of this one, pal."
Posted by Dr. Frank at April 11, 2003 06:28 AM | TrackBack