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:

• Who would be alarmed and to whose agenda would the White House assertion be "unhelpful"?

• Why would Mx. Escobar make such a statement.

• Could it be that Mx Escobar' constituency would be alarmed? On the other hand, why would ordinary citizens not believe that federal vigilance in the form of drones protecting our borders from the incursion of illegal drugs would be a good thing, promoting safety and protection for their children and others?

• Alternatively, could it be the case that the drug cartels are alarmed that their activities are coming to the notice and attention of the office of the US President, and that Mx Escobar is inadvertently of course (wink, wink) serving their interests?

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

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

White House concerns?

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

• 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?

• Surely this is just some "design of darkness t appall".

• Even a seriously incompetent member of Congress is not capable of such self-deception.

• OTOH, all too many of such exalted persons seem entirely capable of believing that their constituents are absolutely stupid enough to believe such lies, OR perhaps more likely those constituents are simply so apathetic and so chronically under-served that they know to expect nothing better.