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		<title>By: kasinca</title>
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		<dc:creator>kasinca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those of you who didn&#039;t already know this should keep up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those of you who didn&#8217;t already know this should keep up.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4162293', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Buckie Boy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Buckie Boy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But, we all knew that already, it was obvious when he was feeding us those lies, jeez.

Will that &quot;Liberal&quot; media pick up on this and show how we were lied to?

No, you say, mmm, thought so.

Will the Democratic congress investigators pick up on this and show how we were lied to?

No, you say, mmm, thought so.

Will progress blogs be the only place this news will show up?

Of course, you say, mmm, thought so.

Bush/Cheney
Hague Trials &#039;09

Buck Fush</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But, we all knew that already, it was obvious when he was feeding us those lies, jeez.</p>
<p>Will that &#8220;Liberal&#8221; media pick up on this and show how we were lied to?</p>
<p>No, you say, mmm, thought so.</p>
<p>Will the Democratic congress investigators pick up on this and show how we were lied to?</p>
<p>No, you say, mmm, thought so.</p>
<p>Will progress blogs be the only place this news will show up?</p>
<p>Of course, you say, mmm, thought so.</p>
<p>Bush/Cheney<br />
Hague Trials &#8216;09</p>
<p>Buck Fush<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4162192', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: geminess</title>
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		<dc:creator>geminess</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>McClellan was just out front touting an ad supporting the war...DUH. He was all over networks and cable stations prior to Patreus&#039; &quot;report&quot; to Congress. 

I have no doubt that he has the blessing of the White House (What a misnomer with those dark, evil characters in there). He simply claims he had no idea...he will sell some books, and it will all blow over, as did the Tenet book, and the others that basically said the same thing. 

These people feel they can do ANYTHING with inpunity because they are who they are...and thus far, no one has REALLY challenged them, not even Fitzgerald, in my opinion. My only hope is that the World Court will get them for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

&quot;Everything the right-wing does is designed to accomplish one of two things, either:
(a) transfer wealth from everyone else to the rich, or,
(b) distract everyone else from the fact that (a) is occurring.&quot;

~Jack Clark (The Rational Radical)

McClellan was indeed the DISTRACTOR...as was/is Fox News; Snow, Perino; Limbaugh, et al.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>McClellan was just out front touting an ad supporting the war&#8230;DUH. He was all over networks and cable stations prior to Patreus&#8217; &#8220;report&#8221; to Congress. </p>
<p>I have no doubt that he has the blessing of the White House (What a misnomer with those dark, evil characters in there). He simply claims he had no idea&#8230;he will sell some books, and it will all blow over, as did the Tenet book, and the others that basically said the same thing. </p>
<p>These people feel they can do ANYTHING with inpunity because they are who they are&#8230;and thus far, no one has REALLY challenged them, not even Fitzgerald, in my opinion. My only hope is that the World Court will get them for CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.</p>
<p>&#8220;Everything the right-wing does is designed to accomplish one of two things, either:<br />
(a) transfer wealth from everyone else to the rich, or,<br />
(b) distract everyone else from the fact that (a) is occurring.&#8221;</p>
<p>~Jack Clark (The Rational Radical)</p>
<p>McClellan was indeed the DISTRACTOR&#8230;as was/is Fox News; Snow, Perino; Limbaugh, et al.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4162152', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: LibertyLover</title>
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		<dc:creator>LibertyLover</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Does Scotty have a death wish?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does Scotty have a death wish?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161933', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: LividLib</title>
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		<dc:creator>LividLib</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>incredible!
it&#039;s acceptable to impeach a president for lying about getting his dick sucked, but not a cover-up of this magnitude?
this country is F_CKED!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>incredible!<br />
it&#8217;s acceptable to impeach a president for lying about getting his dick sucked, but not a cover-up of this magnitude?<br />
this country is F_CKED!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161910', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jayjaybear</title>
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		<dc:creator>jayjaybear</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#4 - Deep Throat is apparently a role that&#039;s switched off between Larry Craig, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham. 

Oh, wait...you meant the OTHER Deep Throat...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#4 &#8211; Deep Throat is apparently a role that&#8217;s switched off between Larry Craig, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsey Graham. </p>
<p>Oh, wait&#8230;you meant the OTHER Deep Throat&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161868', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: malc19ken</title>
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		<dc:creator>malc19ken</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A verb, a noun, a lie.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A verb, a noun, a lie.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161860', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: NoOneYouKnow</title>
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		<dc:creator>NoOneYouKnow</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Scotty&#039;s just trying to get out of the way of the future he sees bearing down on him: being forever known and despised as mouthpiece (and probably indictable accessory) to the most criminal administration in American history. And that squishing sound I hear is that of spines not stiffening in Dem offices on Capital Hill.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Scotty&#8217;s just trying to get out of the way of the future he sees bearing down on him: being forever known and despised as mouthpiece (and probably indictable accessory) to the most criminal administration in American history. And that squishing sound I hear is that of spines not stiffening in Dem offices on Capital Hill.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161838', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Tender Chicken</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tender Chicken</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not interested in after-the-fact mea culpas.  That variety of truth-telling is only done to attempt to exonerate the person who lied to begin with.  If McClellan had been any kind of an upstanding citizen of this country, he would have refused to carry water for Bush.  He would have refused to spread the lies that led this Nation into the quagmire we are in today.  Instead, he&#039;s nothing more than a traitor to this country who willingly told lies to the American people for a paycheck.  Shameful, all of it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not interested in after-the-fact mea culpas.  That variety of truth-telling is only done to attempt to exonerate the person who lied to begin with.  If McClellan had been any kind of an upstanding citizen of this country, he would have refused to carry water for Bush.  He would have refused to spread the lies that led this Nation into the quagmire we are in today.  Instead, he&#8217;s nothing more than a traitor to this country who willingly told lies to the American people for a paycheck.  Shameful, all of it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161796', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: SP Biloxi</title>
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		<dc:creator>SP Biloxi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I emailed Congresman Conyers Jr. from the House Judiciary Committee. I requested that he reopen the Plame investigation and sent the link of Thinkprogress article.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I emailed Congresman Conyers Jr. from the House Judiciary Committee. I requested that he reopen the Plame investigation and sent the link of Thinkprogress article.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161707', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ScrewBush</title>
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		<dc:creator>ScrewBush</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Scotty, Mr Conyers will get right on it.  

I sure Mr Bush and everyone else involved will get a new reprimand written into some report issued by some congressional committee.  Yep, we&#039;re talking real justice for the treasonous activity of outing a convert agent.  Yep, a really long reprimand too.  

See, there really are consequence for acts of treason even if you&#039;re a Republican.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Scotty, Mr Conyers will get right on it.  </p>
<p>I sure Mr Bush and everyone else involved will get a new reprimand written into some report issued by some congressional committee.  Yep, we&#8217;re talking real justice for the treasonous activity of outing a convert agent.  Yep, a really long reprimand too.  </p>
<p>See, there really are consequence for acts of treason even if you&#8217;re a Republican.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161650', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: sacopenapa</title>
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		<dc:creator>sacopenapa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>TREASON!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TREASON!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161646', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That the administration was lying to the public about this treasonous crime is predictable. I don&#039;t want people to forget that Time and Newsweek also lied to the American people and that they represent the &quot;Fourth Estate.&quot; These were lies of ommission. The managing editors of these esteemed rags knew before the 2004 election that Bush was lying about the Plame affair and they didn&#039;t think the public needed to know before making an informed voting decision. Time and Newsweek - simply a disgrace.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That the administration was lying to the public about this treasonous crime is predictable. I don&#8217;t want people to forget that Time and Newsweek also lied to the American people and that they represent the &#8220;Fourth Estate.&#8221; These were lies of ommission. The managing editors of these esteemed rags knew before the 2004 election that Bush was lying about the Plame affair and they didn&#8217;t think the public needed to know before making an informed voting decision. Time and Newsweek &#8211; simply a disgrace.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161620', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: zuch</title>
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		<dc:creator>zuch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;[McClellan]: â€œI had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the Presidentâ€™s chief of staff, and the president himself....â€&lt;/i&gt;

&quot;... and it &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; took me &lt;i&gt;a couple years&lt;/i&gt; to screw up my righteousness and my indignation at being so used enough to stop lying for them and leave....&quot;

&quot;Buy my book, please.  I&#039;m willing to do anything, screw anyone, for money.  My &#039;morals&#039; are entirely of the pecuniary sort.&quot;

Cheers,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>[McClellan]: â€œI had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the Presidentâ€™s chief of staff, and the president himself&#8230;.â€</i></p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230; and it <i>only</i> took me <i>a couple years</i> to screw up my righteousness and my indignation at being so used enough to stop lying for them and leave&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Buy my book, please.  I&#8217;m willing to do anything, screw anyone, for money.  My &#8216;morals&#8217; are entirely of the pecuniary sort.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cheers,<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161592', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: SP Biloxi</title>
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		<dc:creator>SP Biloxi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It boggles the mind why people like Scotty McFelon would come out with a tell-all book about how he lied for the people who were involved in the Plame matter now. The Wilson still want answers. The point is the McFelon has to live with the fact that he lied for the Administration and ruined a covert officer 21 year career in the CIA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It boggles the mind why people like Scotty McFelon would come out with a tell-all book about how he lied for the people who were involved in the Plame matter now. The Wilson still want answers. The point is the McFelon has to live with the fact that he lied for the Administration and ruined a covert officer 21 year career in the CIA.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161578', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bush is a four letter word</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bush is a four letter word</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why should the whole country wait until April to find out how the President lied to us, and why should we have to pay for it in book form?

Summon this dude before Congress now, under the banner of impeachment hearings if necessary.

I might remind you all that impeachment requires only a majority vote of the House (removal is then discussed by the Senate), and it is possible to impeach a President several times.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why should the whole country wait until April to find out how the President lied to us, and why should we have to pay for it in book form?</p>
<p>Summon this dude before Congress now, under the banner of impeachment hearings if necessary.</p>
<p>I might remind you all that impeachment requires only a majority vote of the House (removal is then discussed by the Senate), and it is possible to impeach a President several times.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161568', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: MapleStreet</title>
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		<dc:creator>MapleStreet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not at all surprised that Shrub was involved.

I am extremely pleasantly surprised that someone is starting to break ranks and tell the full story.  Let us hope that this is like a snowball rolling down a hill.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not at all surprised that Shrub was involved.</p>
<p>I am extremely pleasantly surprised that someone is starting to break ranks and tell the full story.  Let us hope that this is like a snowball rolling down a hill.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161540', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: gummitch</title>
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		<dc:creator>gummitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Bush is just a better looking Nixon with a far crappier trade policy.

Comment by dwstar â€” November 20, 2007 @ 11:40 am&lt;/em&gt;

Nixon was paranoid and vicious, but he had more brains in his thumb than the entire Bush administration can claim. I hated the man&#039;s guts while he was in office, but in retrospect some of his foreign and domestic policy decisions were positively &quot;liberal&quot;, particularly when compared to the Republicans who have followed him into the White House.

It creeps me out to think that I have any nostalgia at all for the Nixon years; just goes to show how things have deteriorated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Bush is just a better looking Nixon with a far crappier trade policy.</p>
<p>Comment by dwstar â€” November 20, 2007 @ 11:40 am</em></p>
<p>Nixon was paranoid and vicious, but he had more brains in his thumb than the entire Bush administration can claim. I hated the man&#8217;s guts while he was in office, but in retrospect some of his foreign and domestic policy decisions were positively &#8220;liberal&#8221;, particularly when compared to the Republicans who have followed him into the White House.</p>
<p>It creeps me out to think that I have any nostalgia at all for the Nixon years; just goes to show how things have deteriorated.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161533', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dwstar</title>
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		<dc:creator>dwstar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bush is just a better looking Nixon with a far crappier trade policy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bush is just a better looking Nixon with a far crappier trade policy.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161530', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: OxyCon</title>
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		<dc:creator>OxyCon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Count the lies (highlighted for your enjoyment).
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Q Do you think that the Justice Department can conduct an impartial investigation, considering the political ramifications of the CIA leak, and why wouldn&#039;t a special counsel be better? 

THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Let me just say something about leaks in Washington. There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. There&#039;s leaks at the executive branch; there&#039;s leaks in the legislative branch. There&#039;s just too many leaks. &lt;strong&gt;And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is&lt;/strong&gt;. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of. 

And so I welcome the investigation. &lt;strong&gt;I -- I&#039;m absolutely confident that the Justice Department will do a very good job&lt;/strong&gt;. There&#039;s a special division of career Justice Department officials who are tasked with doing this kind of work; they have done this kind of work before in Washington this year. &lt;strong&gt;I have told our administration, people in my administration to be fully cooperative&lt;/strong&gt;.  

&lt;strong&gt;I want to know the truth&lt;/strong&gt;. If anybody has got any information inside our administration or outside our administration, it would be helpful if they came forward with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true and get on about the business. 

Yes, let&#039;s see, Kemper -- he&#039;s from Chicago. Where are you? Are you a Cubs or White Sox fan? (Laughter.) Wait a minute. That doesn&#039;t seem fair, does it? (Laughter.) 

Q Yesterday we were told that Karl Rove had no role in it -- 

THE PRESIDENT: Yes. 

Q -- have you talked to Karl and do you have confidence in him -- 

THE PRESIDENT:&lt;strong&gt; Listen, I know of nobody -- I don&#039;t know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I&#039;d like to know it, and we&#039;ll take the appropriate action&lt;/strong&gt;. And this investigation is a good thing. 

And again I repeat, you know, Washington is a town where there&#039;s all kinds of allegations. You&#039;ve heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information -- outside the administration. And we can clarify this thing very quickly if people who have got solid evidence would come forward and speak out. And I would hope they would. 

And then we&#039;ll get to the bottom of this and move on. But I want to tell you something -- leaks of classified information are a bad thing. And we&#039;ve had them -- there&#039;s too much leaking in Washington. That&#039;s just the way it is. And we&#039;ve had leaks out of the administrative branch, had leaks out of the legislative branch, and out of the executive branch and the legislative branch, and I&#039;ve spoken out consistently against them and I want to know who the leakers are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Count the lies (highlighted for your enjoyment).<br />
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<p>Q Do you think that the Justice Department can conduct an impartial investigation, considering the political ramifications of the CIA leak, and why wouldn&#8217;t a special counsel be better? </p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Let me just say something about leaks in Washington. There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. There&#8217;s leaks at the executive branch; there&#8217;s leaks in the legislative branch. There&#8217;s just too many leaks. <strong>And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is</strong>. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of. </p>
<p>And so I welcome the investigation. <strong>I &#8212; I&#8217;m absolutely confident that the Justice Department will do a very good job</strong>. There&#8217;s a special division of career Justice Department officials who are tasked with doing this kind of work; they have done this kind of work before in Washington this year. <strong>I have told our administration, people in my administration to be fully cooperative</strong>.  </p>
<p><strong>I want to know the truth</strong>. If anybody has got any information inside our administration or outside our administration, it would be helpful if they came forward with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true and get on about the business. </p>
<p>Yes, let&#8217;s see, Kemper &#8212; he&#8217;s from Chicago. Where are you? Are you a Cubs or White Sox fan? (Laughter.) Wait a minute. That doesn&#8217;t seem fair, does it? (Laughter.) </p>
<p>Q Yesterday we were told that Karl Rove had no role in it &#8212; </p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: Yes. </p>
<p>Q &#8212; have you talked to Karl and do you have confidence in him &#8212; </p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT:<strong> Listen, I know of nobody &#8212; I don&#8217;t know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I&#8217;d like to know it, and we&#8217;ll take the appropriate action</strong>. And this investigation is a good thing. </p>
<p>And again I repeat, you know, Washington is a town where there&#8217;s all kinds of allegations. You&#8217;ve heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information &#8212; outside the administration. And we can clarify this thing very quickly if people who have got solid evidence would come forward and speak out. And I would hope they would. </p>
<p>And then we&#8217;ll get to the bottom of this and move on. But I want to tell you something &#8212; leaks of classified information are a bad thing. And we&#8217;ve had them &#8212; there&#8217;s too much leaking in Washington. That&#8217;s just the way it is. And we&#8217;ve had leaks out of the administrative branch, had leaks out of the legislative branch, and out of the executive branch and the legislative branch, and I&#8217;ve spoken out consistently against them and I want to know who the leakers are.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4161529', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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