Bloggers like to blog. We like to blog about meetings with important government people about issues our readers care about (or not). So can someone tell me who the hell were the bloggers at the a roundtable discussion that Sec. Chertoff had where he discussed why his department “cannot afford to get enmeshed in the kinds of litigation that have traditionally caused projects [in this case the border fence] to take decades to complete…” you know because of troublesome environmental laws?

Marisa at Latina Lista points out some wavig red flags:

Reading the transcript, which was released as a press release, and is only a partial transcript at that, not one blogger is identified.

The strangeness of this situation immediately waves red flags.

Before the government releases a bogus statement about protecting privacy, there exists something in the blogosphere that is an universal truth — no blogger wants to be anonymous, especially if they were lucky enough to score an interview with a high-profile individual like Chertoff.

Real bloggers would make that a headline post and it would have surely been “talked” about in the blogosphere. Strange that I ran across the item by accident doing a news seach on Chertoff.

Given the track record of this administration that sees nothing wrong in staging press conferences, I tend to believe that this may also have been the case – though I don’t have any proof but a lot of circumstantial evidence.

Ay the government wouldn’t lie like that and stage an event right?

Via / Latina Lista