Couric's Comic Bias

Katie Couric, interviewing Deputy Attorney General James Comey about the move to renew the Patriot Act:

What about people who are rounded up, imprisoned and kept for months without trial?

Bless his heart, and unusually for a Bush administration appointee, Comey actually got it on the air that:

• The so-called "Mass roundups" were INS operations - conducted under pre-Patriot, pre-9/11, pre-Bush regulations.
• Nobody is imprisoned in Guantanamo under Patriot measures. Gitmo is a POW camp.

Before that, Matt Lauer was going to comical lengths - far enough to make Bob Woodward uncomfortable - in questioning Woodward about his new book.

As if it'd be unusual for the President to plan a military operation without announcing it to Congress...

As if, in fact, it wasn't something Clinton should have been doing from the moment he declared "regime change" in Iraq a goal.

Posted by Mitch at April 19, 2004 07:28 AM