White House Cracks Down on Capitol Hill Blue Website

Okay, it’s time to get worried, if you weren’t already. The White House is going after Capitol Hill Blue. I always thought that website was hanging it out there about as far as possible. They broke the story about presidential temper tantrums months before Newsweek ran it. They also claimed to have sources close to the Secret Service agents at the Cheney shooting incident, who claim he was clearly drunk.
It looks like the White House is fighting back. Recently Capitol Hill Blue’s Doug Thompson received one of hundreds of “National Security Letters” the FBI is sending out to reporters’ employers, credit card companies, banks, etc…to turn over records. We have a White House trying to prosecute reporters and their sources, to keep Bush administration misdeeds under wraps, secret from the public. Thanks to the Patriot Act it is also illegal for the banks, employers, and credit card companies to inform the reporters they are being investigated.
Here’s how Doug Thompson describes it:
“The letter demanded traffic data, payment records and other information about the web site along with information on me, the publisher. Now that's a problem. I own the company that hosts Capitol Hill Blue. So, in effect, the feds want me to turn over information on myself and not tell myself that I'm doing it. You'd think they'd know better. I turned the letter over to my lawyer and told him to send the following message to the feds: Fuck you. Strong letter to follow. “

Ouch, strong language. He’ll probably disappear one sunny day in our nation's capitol. At least that’s what happens under similar governments as this one. Did I mention how proud I am of the job the NSA is doing? And oh, that Dick Cheney! Is he one hell of a good shot or what?