"60 Minutes" collaborator Josh Marshall questions the timing (sort of):

Rove and his crew of course will stop at no end of bamboozlement and terror manipulation for political ends though. And the timing, well ...

Let's wait and see how this develops.

Last night, Dick Morris said on Bill O'Reilly's program that had the terror plot been broken on Monday instead of Thursday, Iraq-war supporter Sen. Joe Lieberman would have handily defeated Ned Lamont in Connecticut's Democratic Senate primary. (Rudy Giuliani, in a later appearance on Fox, agreed that a Monday disruption would have ended Lamont's peace march to the Senate.)

Which is all counterintuitive for a Rovian plot (i.e., the "Albright Theory" of locking Osama bin Laden in a basement and bringing him out days before an election.)

But, as Marshall explains, presidential advisor Karl Rove and others in government would stop at no end of "bamboozlement and terror manipulation."