Bush is JUST like OJ [View All]

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OJ said he'd go after the "real killers."

Then, he went to play golf.

Bush said he'd go after the "real leakers."

Then he went on vacation.

The only difference between them is Bush is a traitor for exposing Valerie Plame and her network at Brewster, Jennings & Assoc as well as their counterproliferation work. Then bullying all who opposed him into doing what he wants, probably through illegal wiretaps, and then starting an illegal and immoral war in Iraq. Afghanistan, too, for that matter.

Margaret Carlson , who was a columnist and deputy Washington bureau chief for Time magazine, is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own.

Bush's Search for Leakers Leads to His Mirror

by Margaret Carlson

April 10 (Bloomberg) -- I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, former chief of staff and close confidante to the vice president, looked into the maw of a grand jury and disgorged words that few thought could be squeezed out of him.

Libby told the grand jury, according to court documents obtained by the New York Sun, that he was authorized by President George W. Bush, through Vice President Dick Cheney, to spill classified information to New York Times reporter Judith Miller. This Libby did, on July 8, 2003, over drinks at the St. Regis Hotel, a few blocks north of the White House.

At the time, the Bush administration was shaken by revelations undermining its carefully constructed justification for going to war with Iraq. The latest blow had come two days earlier from former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who wrote an op-ed piece disputing the White House claim that Saddam Hussein tried to buy weapons-grade uranium in Niger. Wilson had been sent to Niger by the CIA to investigate the intelligence reports on which the claim was based.

To strike back, the president wanted to reveal to the one reporter who had proved her willingness to serve as an administration scribe the section of the National Intelligence Estimate that said Saddam had ``probably'' tried to secure such fuel.

No Denials

By not denying Libby's bombshell, the White House last week more or less confirmed that the person the president swore would be punished for leaking classified information was himself, and that his oft-stated wish to find the leaker, in a bad parody of O.J. Simpson, had been achieved.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&sid=aA0KoKrk5.Ec&refer=columnist_carlson

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