Kerry this, Kerry that! I want to know this: What did Bush...

[ProSense]

What did Bush know, and when did he lie about it?

November 6, 2005
White House Tries to Keep Distance From Leak Case
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 - In the hours before the Justice Department informed the White House in late September 2003 that it would investigate the leak of a covert C.I.A. officer's identity, Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, gave reporters what turned out to be a rare glimpse into President Bush's knowledge of the case.

Mr. Bush, he said, "knows" that Karl Rove, his senior adviser, had not been the source of the leak. Pressed on how Mr. Bush was certain, Mr. McClellan said he was "not going to get into conversations that the president has with advisers," but made no effort to erase the impression that Mr. Rove had assured Mr. Bush that he had not been involved.

Since then, administration officials and Mr. Bush himself have carefully avoided disclosing anything about any involvement the president may have had in the events surrounding the disclosure of the officer's identity or anything about what his aides may have told them about their roles. Citing the continuing investigation and now the pending trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, they have declined to comment on almost any aspect of the case.

The issue now for the White House is how long it can go on deflecting the inquiries and trying to keep the focus away from Mr. Bush.

more...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/national/06leak.html?

Sincerely,
Among the more than 51% calling for impeachment

[Mnemosyne]

1. Great catch ProSense!

Thank you. We need to remember this always. Push it each day.:bounce:

Welcome to DU!
:hi:

[ProSense]

3. Thank you!

:hi:

[ClassWarrior]

2. If Bush** had any dignity at all, he'd resign now and...

... spare the nation the shame.

NGU.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Welcome to DU

And thank you for this post...It needed to be said.

[ProSense]

5. Thanks! n/t

[begin_within]

6. What I want to know is...

[tblue37]

11. I am reminded of a great Leno line:

"What did the president know--and when did Dick Cheney explain it to him?"

[pacalo]

7. Excellent!

Waaaah...Kerry didn't make an ass of himself at his concession speech & make wild claims of election fraud...who cares if he didn't have proof -- we wanted to feel vindicated at the expense of his reputation & effectiveness in the Senate...wahwahwah.

Waaaah...Kerry won the nomination over my favorite candidate, so I'm going to diss him at every opportunity...wahwahwah.

Welcome to DU, ProSense! :hi:

[robbedvoter]

8. So, this is the PLEASE CHANGE THE SUBJECT THREAD?

It was you guys who came breathlessly with the news: Kerry now thinks...whatever.
Anyway, yours is also a very good question. But kerry's concession is still a relevant debate subject - so if you try to make me look at the shiny object over there, you got the wrong person: I can hold 2 thoughts in my head: W commited treason AND kerry sold us out.

[stepnw1f]

12. Yeah It Is... Move On

or high-jack anothr thread for your anti-Kerry agenda, since it's all you seem to post about.

[ClayZ]

9. Reminds me of an old joke!

Two fleas walking around in the fur...asking "Is there a DOG?"

[Tony_Illinois]

10. Here's What I Want to Know, even if the press doesn't--

when will the flipping President call that slimeball VP of his into the Oval and slap the shit out of him for being wrapped up in this outing of a CIA agent? I don't care who the agent is or what their spouse did or did not do. This President ought, if he had character and was, in fact, a patriot, to fire all these people involved in the Wilson/Plame sleaze, end of discussion.

I don't give a good goddamn whether any "laws" were technically broken, or whether or not Joe Wilson was "anti-administration". The President ought to know enough by now to recognize that a house-cleaning is in order. . . unless this is all OK with him, and I fear it looks like that's how it is gonna go down.

[JanusAscending]

13. WHO?

What President? You see a President? I don't see any President! Who- ever runs the Whitehouse, KNEW FULL WELL WHAT WAS GOING DOWN!!