'NAFTAgate' began with remark from Harper's chief of staff
OTTAWA — If the Prime Minister is seeking the first link in the chain of events that has rocked the U.S. presidential race, he need look no further than his chief of staff, Ian Brodie, The Canadian Press has learned.
A candid comment to journalists from CTV News by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's most senior political staffer during the hurly-burly of a budget lock-up provided the initial spark in what the American media are now calling NAFTAgate.
Mr. Harper announced Wednesday that he has asked an internal security team to begin finding the source of a document leak that he characterized as being "blatantly unfair" to Senator Barack Obama.
What is now a swirling Canada-U.S. controversy began on Feb. 26, when the usually circumspect Mr. Brodie was milling among droves of Canadian media on budget day in the stately old building that once housed Ottawa's train station.
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Stumble It!
WTF? Why the giant red text? Is there a fire drill today?
Howzzat? We don't know yet why these things happen. They just do, and don't show up in preview.
Now why would somebody in Harper's Conservatives do such a thing? Hmmm...could it be that the Conservatives and the Republicans are political soul mates who share strategists? Yup. That's a matter of record.
How come the press isn't all over this? Why just the he said/she said from official government press releases? Was Brodie in on it? Certainly. Did he just mis-speak, acting alone? Not bloody likely.
trying to make more anti-conservative BS?
Sounds a lot like Iraq.
Sounds a lot like Iraq.
It sounds a lot like typical Republican/Conservative strategy.
Just trying to keep up with all the scandals. Interfering in the democratic process seems to be a preoccupation of the Harperites.
But Brodie, Harper's Chief of Staff, Harper's Karl Rove, just happens to let slip a political bombshell to a captive audience of journalists?
Who's stupid enough to believe that?
And the tin-foil hatters enter the fray.....HAW HAW HAW