Bush Doesn’t Have to Wait
By on Jul 14th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
Bush Doesn’t Have to Wait
After a cabinet meeting on yesterday, President Bush was asked a question about Karl Rove:
Q Can I ask you if you have spoken with your Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove about the Valerie Plame matter? And do you think he acted improperly in talking about it with reporters?
THE PRESIDENT: Mark, I have instructed every member of my staff to fully cooperate in this investigation. I also will not prejudge the investigation based on media reports.
This makes absolutely no sense. Bush doesn’t need to rely on media reports. He could get this information immediately. Rove is one of his closest advisors and Bush could ask him exactly what happened.
Maybe in this case, ignorance is bliss.
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This is about honestly and being a “straight shooter”, like the President.
I think we are finding out the if you repeat things over and over and over, it doesn’t necessarily make them true.
Could it be that the house of cards is becoming shaky? We need to get the message out to the middle. My friend sent me an email the other day about this whole affair.
—-35% won’t believe it. 35% will convict w/o sufficient evidence. 10% don’t care. 10% care, but don’t think things will change. 10% will raise awareness….
July 14th, 2005 at 4:38 pmNo bliss, just totally ignorant.
July 14th, 2005 at 4:38 pmNo, the reality of Rove talking to media is not a “media report”. It is very insulting.
Yes, the history books will convey how this administration chose red herring, character assassination and politics to hide the bad seed.
July 14th, 2005 at 4:44 pmEasy explanation. The reporter just inserted his quarter, selected track #5, and pressed play.
July 14th, 2005 at 4:49 pmYes indeedy, this one is getting mighty odd. Including Ann Coulter’s column today where she takes a more aggressive approach, basically claiming Karl is a national hero by virtue of these events. Yikes!
for a somewhat lighthearted treatment: http://www.hairytruth.blogspot.com
July 14th, 2005 at 4:55 pmYes, the Bush-O-Matic 6000 is operating at peak performance. Simply ask your question, and get one of these responses:
1. I already answered that.
2. I will not comment on a matter related to an ongoing investigation.
3. I can’t comment on that.
4. I am cooperating with the investigation by not saying anything.
5. We will get to the bottom this.
“Honest” and “straight-shooter” are definitely the terms that come to my mind.
July 14th, 2005 at 4:55 pmA thinking caring person might want to learn about the damage Rove and others (ho boy! there _are_ others involved in this too) did to Ms Plame’s cover, the cover company, and the work that they performed on behalf of the USA. But no, the Head Chimp can’t exert enough energy to do the thinking caring thing on behalf of his nation.
Anyone here read about the damage Rove and other did in just this one area? Its shocking! And very frightening for the other CIA agents who worked under the same umbrella. One of the areas the team worked in was tracking/tracing WMD worldwide. Somewhat valuable work, don’t you think?
Makes me wonder if BushCo didn’t overturn decades of deep undercover work and endanger the lives of so many people to deliberately torpedo a small set of contracts just so Dick Cheney and Haliburton(sp?) could take them over. Which, BTW, appears to have been what happened. :-(
July 14th, 2005 at 5:42 pmJC-
To paraphrase another poster on a long forgotten thread, the only thing the right arte siezed upon are Wilson and the vast left-wing conspiracy to bring down Bush. They also somehow manage to throw Clinton in there, but in comparison to what’s gone on in the last 4 1/2 years, it shows they have no regard for the truth. Not unless it makes their political point or increases their power. If they were so hungry for the actual truth, they would be approaching this case with the same intensity they put into File-Travel-Paula-Monica-China-whatever-the-hell-ever-else-Gate all those years.
But I’m not counting on it.
July 14th, 2005 at 5:48 pmBush could just ask him. I am willing to bet he doesn’t have to though. I am thinking he knows exactly what happened and they are simply stalling for time, and hope this blows over.
July 14th, 2005 at 5:59 pmPerrspectives Document Library provides one-stop access to most of the key documents in the Karl Rove Plame Outing Scandal:
- The Karl Rove Scandal Documents
The Rove documents include the original Joseph Wilson New York Times op-ed, Robert Novak’s column outing Wilson’s wife Valerie Plame and key 2003 White House press briefings by Scott McClellan and President Bush. The Library also features key 2003 and 2005 articles on the scandal, the 2004 Vanity Fair profile of the Wilsons, as well as a timeline of entire affair. For future reference, links to the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Covert Agent Identity Protection Act are also included.
- Iraq Intelligence and WMD Documents
July 14th, 2005 at 6:03 pmThis collection of documents includes the key investigations on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and WMD programs, including the final Iraq Survey Group report, the July 2004 Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Robb-Silberman Commission Report and the British Butler Report. The Downing Street and other pre-war British memos are also available, as are the the President’s 2003 State of the Union, Colin Powell’s February 2003 presentation to the U.N. Security Council, and more.
Funny how deafening the Whites House’s “official� silence has been with the RNC and their surrogate’s talking points. Perhaps Scotty will respond to this?
July 14th, 2005 at 6:49 pmHow sweet would it have been if the reporter asking the question would have said…
“Well, if you don’t want to rely on media reports, how about asking Karl right now about it? He’s sitting right behind you…”
July 14th, 2005 at 9:13 pm#5, I got a glimpse of Anne Coulter the other night and it is my guess that she is suffering from AIDS.
Look at her sunken cheeks.
The cough will be showing up soon and then it’s lights out for the ol whore.
Can’t wait to hear who she contracted the “homo” disease from.
July 15th, 2005 at 11:32 ambk, that’s great! The President long ago (like two years ago) should have told Andy Card to have everyone who works in the White House give him a full, written statement within 48 hours, and then released them all to the press. If Karl or any of the others involved were honest and admitted their involvement he should have fired them and been done with it. His own father said that he has “nothing but contempt” for anyone who would reveal the identity of a covert intelligence agent and that they are “the most insidious of traitors.” So why has the son gone along for two years employing such “traitors” as his top aides — at your expense and mine, I might add.
July 15th, 2005 at 3:16 pmIt’s called Plausible Deniability
July 15th, 2005 at 3:50 pmWhen I say that bush could very well be the second coming of hitler I do not see it as a sarcastic remark, because anything’s possible.
August 19th, 2005 at 1:29 pm