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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: American Spirit who wrote (53015)7/18/2005 6:52:45 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
Bush lowers the ethics bar. Bush has no ethics so the bar must already be 6 feet underground.

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Bush qualifies firing vow over CIA exposure

Monday, July 18, 2005 4:05 p.m. ET

By Patricia Wilson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Monday vowed to fire anyone found by a federal probe to have acted illegally in the exposure of a CIA agent, in a shift from a broader pledge to dismiss leakers in the case.

Bush, whose top political adviser Karl Rove has been caught up in the investigation, told reporters he did not know all the facts and urged them to wait until the inquiry was complete before "you jump to conclusions."

"I would like this to end as quickly as possible so we know the facts, and if someone committed a crime they will no longer work in my administration," Bush said at a news conference with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Asked on June 10, 2004, whether he stood by his earlier pledge to fire anyone found to have leaked the officer's name, Bush replied: "Yes." On Monday, he added the qualifier that it would have to be demonstrated that a crime was committed.

The Democratic Party accused Bush of lowering the "ethics bar."...
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