Bredesen's Police State

As more details of Bredesen's Watergate come to light, it is apparent that the Bredesen administration is running the Tennessee Highway Patrol in a manner more fitting of a totalitarian state. From The Tennessean:

Tennessean Editor Mark Silverman questioned “whether this was truly the actions of one rogue officer or whether it was condoned by his supervisors.”

“For a state police agency or one of its agents to investigate a reporter who has produced legitimate and critically important coverage of the agency smacks of the intimidation and retribution you would expect to find in a totalitarian state,” Silverman said.

The illegal background check of an administration critic clearly shows the political nature of Bredesen's Watergate. Clearly, Brad Schrade and Mark Silverman aren't buying the administration's lines.