Yikes (via Rondam):

Oregonians called Peter DeFazio’s office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack.

As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure “bubbleroom” in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents.

On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED.

“I just can’t believe they’re going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack,” DeFazio says.

Believe it!

Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. DeFazio doesn’t know who did it or why.

Well, it’s not like Bush would ever use a terrorist attack for political gain, so I’m sure this is nothing to worry about.

DeFazio’s bottom line:

“Maybe the people who think there’s a conspiracy out there are right,” DeFazio said.

Move along, people, move along! There’s no story here!

NOTE Norman Ornstein of the AEI winger stink tank says:

“I find it inexplicable and probably reflective of the usual, knee-jerk overextension of executive power that we see from this White House,” Ornstein said.

That’s telling ’em, Norm. “Inexplicable!” Or all too explicable, eh?