Whiskey Tango Foxtrot...

Here is a quote from google's news summaries today:

Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) pushed back late Wednesday on the Trump

administration’s assertions that a cartel drone incursion caused the

temporary airspace restrictions over El Paso, Texas, and southern New Mexico.

Escobar, whose district includes most of the border city, wrote on social

media that the “amount of misinformation being spread — including by the

White House” on the temporary restrictions is “alarming and unhelpful.”

Here's a few questions (with some assumed and tentative suggestions toward answers)

of that bit of news copy:

+ Why would Mx. Escobar make such a statement?

+ Who would be alarmed and to whose agenda would the White House assertion

be "unhelpful"?

o It might be that Mx Escobar' constituency would be alarmed-- perhaps

it could be asserted that the presence of foreign drug cartel drones

overhead should cause alarm to citizens who do not believe that drug

cartels have the best interests of citizens' children and loved ones in

mind when they fly drones over US airspace.

o Alternatively, could it be the case that the drug cartels themselves

are alarmed that their activities are coming to the notice and attention

office of the US President?

+ What is to be made of the clownishly absurd assertion follow-on assertion on Mx

Escobar's part that escaped party balloons could be a source of mistaken

White House concerns?

                        o Recall that members of Congress have access at will to military intelligence reports and other classified materials.

o How could Mx Escobar be seriously asserting that US defense and

drug intervention information technology and analysts are so inept as

to be incapable of discerning the difference between a drone and a

party balloon? Certainly this is just some "design of darkness to

appall". Even a seriously incompetent member of Congress is not

capable of such self deception. OTOH, all too many of such exalted

persons are entirely capable of believing that their constituents are

absolutely stupid enough to believe such lies, OR simply so apathetic

and underserved that they have come to expect nothing better.