Kyl:Bush admin. innocently asking"How do we get the full story out there?"

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WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/10/AR2006041001049.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

All the President's Leaks

By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006; Page A21

What's amazing about the defenses offered for President Bush in the Valerie Plame leak investigation is that they deal with absolutely everything except the central issue: Did Bush know a lot more about this case than he let on before the 2004 elections?

But first, let's offer full credit to the Bush spin operation for working so hard and so effectively to change the subject.The news was the court filing by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald reporting that Bush, through Vice President Cheney, had authorized I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to leak sensitive intelligence information in July 2003 to discredit claims made by former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.

Wilson had fired a direct shot at the White House's rationale for the war in Iraq by saying the administration had distorted intelligence concerning Saddam Hussein's supposed efforts to obtain nuclear materials. The threat that Hussein might go nuclear was an emotional centerpiece of the administration's case for war. Condoleezza Rice, then Bush's national security adviser, made the case with great dramatic effect on Sept. 8, 2002: "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

The president's defenders want you to think that when it comes to leaking, every president does it. Why should Bush be held to a different standard? Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) told CNN on Sunday that the Bush administration was innocently asking itself, "How do we get the full story out there?"

Besides, since the president can authorize the declassification of anything he chooses to declassify, he can't be involved in anything untoward. "This was not a leak," Joseph diGenova, a top Republican lawyer, told the New York Sun's Josh Gerstein. "This was an authorized disclosure." Ah, yes, it depends on what the meaning of the word "leak" is. That sounds familiar, doesn't it?

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1. Yeah! Where's Jeff Gannon when you really need 'im? Huh?

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5. Back home, can you blame him?

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2. "Did Bush know ...

a lot more about this case than he let on before the 2004 elections?" DUH!!

[Dr.Phool]

3. Plead guilty and tell everything you know.

And release the damage assessment that the CIA made about you guys blowing the cover of Brewster-Jennings. Traitors.

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4. miracles can happen n/t

[Supersedeas]

6. CNN goes with Kyl and DiGenova...brilliant

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7. If everything was hunky-dory, why not hold a press conference?

"Fellow citizens, I have declassified some information about our reasons for going to war so that you will better understand the need for our military action."

What is so fucking hard about that? Keeps everything above-board and in the loop and all that other cliched crap.

Unless, of course......THEY'RE LYING!!!!!!!

But no way that could happen, huh? :sarcasm:

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8. HA! HA! never

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