But it's still my first reaction... that this is awfully convenient timing for the president.
Bush is at 42% in the polls, and his chief advisor is about to be indicted. Bets on what happens to those two conditions now?
Now, I'm not really such a tinfoil-hatter to seriously believe -- right now -- that there's any connection. It's likely that it's timed with the G8 summit and has nothing directly to do with influencing American politics specifically. After all, not every terror attack involves friends of friends of the president.
But the timing sure is convenient. If Americans start, as a result of this, giving the president "better marks on the war on terror", I'll start being suspicious in truth.
But maybe, just to be safe, Bush had better fire Fitzgerald before something worse happens.