Did Bush tell Fitz ALL the truth he knew, or same thing he was telling us?

[kpete]

A question for President Bush

By MARTIN SCHRAM
Scripps Howard News Service
11-APR-06

There is only one major question that remains publicly unanswered concerning President Bush in the special prosecutor's probe of the leak campaign to discredit Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson that ended up outing his wife, ex-CIA covert agent Valerie Plame.

It isn't the old and famous: What did the president know and when did he know it? (We now know a good bit about what this president knew and when he knew it. And what he did after he knew it.)

It is: Did the president tell the special prosecutor's team all the truth that he knew, or did he tell them the same thing he was telling us back then?

We need to know that because what Bush was telling us in 2003 _ that he knew nothing about the leaks and wanted to find and fire all leakers _ ran the narrow gamut from misleading half-truth to bald-faced untruth.

Of course, it is not a federal crime for a president to lie to the American people when he is not under oath. (No, the usual punishment we inflict upon incumbent presidents who lie to us is to re-elect them.)

But it is a crime for anyone to mislead, impede or lie to federal investigators _ whether they are not under oath to tell the truth or not. For a president or a vice president, it can be an impeachable crime. (This point was argued most persuasively by congressional Republicans a few years ago as they made a federal case out of an incident that was not about national security, but consensual oral sex.)

more at:
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=SCHRAM-04-11-06

[opihimoimoi]

1. Bush gives new meaning to the term LEAKER, espec when combined with

Slacker...like in Sleaker...of the Stealthful type

[rodeodance]

2. gee, i have not heard the Leaker-in-chief lately. sure hope it does not

get lost

[opihimoimoi]

3. Gov't by Stealth means Bush is gone fishing, fund raising, or slumming.

Nothing to report/see/move on...

[Mz Pip]

4. BUsh wasn't under oath

so who knows what he said. He doesn't care about facts, he cares about instinct. Where that ends up on the spectrum of truth is problematic.

Mz Pip
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