And what has (Bush) done about it? Nothing.... That's the whole story

[TruthIsAll]

As Deep Throat told Woodward in 1973 during Watergate during his glory days of investigative reporting, which he has since squandered by becoming a card-carrying member of the Bush whoremedia: "You are missing the overall".

Now, thirty years later, in 2003 TraitorGate, Josh Marshall puts it in simple terms. Even Woodward would understand it.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
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For the last ten days we've known that two senior administration officials blew the cover of an undercover CIA employee for some mix of retribution and political gamesmanship.

It's next to certain that the president --- like the rest of those who read Novak's original column or heard about it --- knew this in mid-July. But it's absolutely certain he's known about it since September 27th.

And what has he done about it? Nothing.

All mumbo-jumbo to the contrary, the universe of possible culprits is quite small. I suspect the identity of the two is already well-known in the White House. But even if that's not the case, the president could quickly figure out who they are --- probably by demanding that they come forward, and certainly by reviewing phone logs and emails. Yet he has done neither.

We now have the farcical spectacle of the Justice Department initiating a massive investigation --- with the net thrown almost comically wide --- in order to find out what the president could find out in a few hours, tops.

That's the whole story right there.

The president has said he wants to get to the bottom of this. Yet he has done nothing to get to the bottom of it. The only credible explanation is the obvious one: that he doesn't want to get to the bottom of it.

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[aquart]

1. Yup.

The scary part is how many find this an impossible concept to absorb.