WASHINGTON - For the better part of two years, the word coming out of the Bush White House was that presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak of a female CIA officer's identity and that whoever did would be fired.
But Bush spokesman Scott McClellan wouldn't repeat those claims Monday in the face of Rove's own lawyer, Robert Luskin, acknowledging the political operative spoke to Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, one of the reporters who disclosed Valerie Plame's name.
McLellan repeatedly said he couldn't comment because the matter is under investigation. When it was pointed out he had commented previously even though the investigation was ongoing, he responded: "I've really said all I'm going to say on it."
Shine the LIGHT of RIGHTEOUS TRUTH and watch all the COCKROACHES scurry for cover...
"I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the Mother in me."—Guess Who? Washington D.C., April 14, 2005
posted on July 13, 2005 06:51:36 AM new
Unanswered Questions
Among the questions McClellan did not answer:
· "Does the President stand by his pledge to fire anyone involved in the leak of a name of a CIA operative?"
· "[W]hy have you commented on this during the process of the investigation in the past, but now you've suddenly drawn a curtain around it under the statement of, 'We're not going to comment on an ongoing investigation'?"
· "Do you stand by your statement from the fall of 2003 when you were asked specifically about Karl and Elliott Abrams and Scooter Libby, and you said, 'I've gone to each of those gentlemen, and they have told me they are not involved in this' -- do you stand by that statement?"
· "After the investigation is completed, will you then be consistent with your word and the President's word that anybody who was involved would be let go?"
· "Does the President continue to have confidence in Mr. Rove?"
· "Has there been any change or is there a plan for Mr. Rove's portfolio to be altered in any way?"
· "Now, are you saying that the President is not taking any action in response to that?"
· "Scott, what was the President's interaction today with Karl Rove? Did they discuss this current situation?"
· "[A]re you concerned that in not setting the record straight today that this could undermine the credibility of the other things you say from the podium?"
· "Scott, at this point, are we to consider what you've said previously, when you were talking about this, that you're still standing by that, or are those all inoperative at this point?"
posted on July 13, 2005 08:01:20 AM new
Anyone notice the one particular word that McClennon kept using... "criminal". He said it was a criminal investigation, meaning that the year + investigation believes criminal activity may have been committed. So, in a way, he is admitting that there is a good possibility that we have a criminal whispering in the ear of our President. Hmmmm....
posted on July 13, 2005 09:40:12 AM new
Mingotree.. I hadn't thought of it that way before..but I guess it's kind of the same thing we Democrats are experiencing now...so hopefully it will be our turn to gloat a while in 2008... all's fair in love and war..(proverb)?
