Am I reading this right? If so, it shows again that this administration (and the president himself) willfully lies about national security at the drop of a hat (I am of course referring to the president's vow - lie? - that he'd fire anyone involved in the Plame leak) and has no respect at all for Americans who are daily putting themselves on the line to defend this country. But then what else would you expect from the US president who allowed purple heart "bandages" to be widely displayed at his nominating convention.
I mean I might be reading too much into this - but it looks like Bush has always known. Hardly a shock that, but still ... I thought he was supposed "to restore" honor and integrity to the White House?
Looks like Scott McClellan is going to have another bad day.
Posted by armand at October 19, 2005 10:37 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politicssee also ObWi for a more detailed discussion and TPM regarding how well connected the reporter credited with the story is with the conservative establishment.
how big is this?
Posted by: joshua at October 19, 2005 01:50 PM | PERMALINKIt should be stupendously gigantically huge - I mean knock Saddam's whines off the leads of everthing - big. Whether or not that's what happens is up to big media.
I mean if nothing else they should really be running Bush's earlier comments and this story back to back on the news shows all day today and tonight.
Btw, DeFrank's memoir with Baker is such a bland, noncontroversial to the n-th degree snooze. George Shultz's (which didn't have a co-writer) is much more interesting.
Posted by: Armand at October 19, 2005 03:29 PM | PERMALINKlooks like yet another hurricane will "save" bush from his own bad stories . . . oh, wait . . .
Posted by: joshua at October 19, 2005 03:44 PM | PERMALINK