The Counter-deception Blog

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"This is not about monitoring phone calls designed to arrange Little League practice or what to bring to a potluck dinner. These are designed to monitor calls from very bad people to very bad people."
- TRENT DUFFY, a spokesman for the White House, on reports about the government's terrorism inquiries.

For a bunch that is supposed to have exquisite PR smarts, the GWB WH occasionally makes some plays that seem pretty Little League.

NEVER put gratuitious specifics in a blow-off response. The very first follow-up question will be "Are you saying Little League practise was spied on? Can you guarantee that no Little Leaguers were spied on?"

Now "Trent Duffy" (can that actually be somebody's name? Parents can be cruel...) will get more and more questions abuut the details of the spying on Little Leaguers and specifically what dinner plans got intercepted, by design or accident.

Imagine being "Potluck" Duffy the rest of your WH career.