Its all about Tiimmiinngg!!

For anyone who has been following the Sandy Berger story, the latest talking points for the democrats is that this was 'interesting timing' or 'suspicious timing' because it will draw attention away from the release of the 9/11 report tomorrow and the Democratic convention next week. Supposedly the evil Republikkkans have known about this for months and have just been waiting for the best time to release this information. I want to know when, in the last several months, would have been a time that was not suspicious? During the April uprisings in Iraq? In May during the Abu Ghraib scandal? In June with several hot stories about the 9/11 and intelligence commissions? And if this had not been leaked now, when in the next few months would have been above suspicion? August? September? as an October surprise? I can't say for sure that this wasn't leaked at this time with malice by a Republican sympathizer. But it seems real unlikely to me. First off, this story has the potential to push the Joseph Wilson story off the radar. Second, if the 9/11 commission report is damaging wouldn’t it be smarter to leak this story right after the report comes out? You kill a story be releasing another story after it, rather than before it. If this was simple to put a cloud over the Democratic Convention wouldn’t it be better to actually leak this story during the Convention? Related thoughts here