Hood, Hood, Hood. First of all, the picture is of a training exercise. But leave that aside. Here’s something else for you to consider. It has been widely discussed around here that the press has no aversion to outing clandestine operations in the War on Terror. They exposed secret prisons, programs, and now — if you are right — canine ops. Why would the press refrain from exposing feline covert operations? One answer is that they do not exist. Another, more troubling possibility, is that cats and the anti-American press corps are in fact on the same side. I have it on good authority that Howell Raines once said “By all means flood the zone in your coverage, but let’s not burn our cat sources. Dogs are expendable, because they’re just a bunch of right-wing cowboys. Cats are with us and we have to do everything we can to protect them within the existing politico-military-industrial complex. They are our quadruped fifth column.”

Regardless, I leave it to you to ponder which scenario is more likely.