Tinfoil Hats Come to Time Magazine

How else to explain this piece by Joshua Micah Marshall?

In these perilous days, we must be ready to think the unthinkable. No, I don't mean the possibility of a catastrophic terrorist attack. After 9/11, that's all too easy to imagine. No, I'm talking about a thought that even now seldom forces its way into respectable conversation: the quite reasonable suspicion that the Bush Administration orchestrates its terror alerts and arrests to goose the GOP's poll numbers.

Now, I'm a respectable columnist. I don't want to draw rolled eyes. But think about it.

Emphasis added.

Bush is supposed to be "dumb" according to many on the Left but we are supposed to believe that he was savvy enough to organize false terror alerts for political purposes? Maybe we are supposed believe that the Uber Evil Karl Rove was behind this (it seems Karl Rove is everywhere and responsible for everything in the tinfoil hat wearing crowd).

Maybe I'm the one who needs a tinfoil hat but I think it would be much more likely that someone who does not have any love for Bush at the CIA would have leaked this information about phony terror alerts long ago if there was any truth to Marshall's fantasy land conspiracy theory.

HT LGF