"Disgusting........Bush approved of Rove's anonymous leaks to reporters."
Ted, you miss the importance of this. If true, then it means that Bush personally is indictable for conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice. Now true, his previous testimony before the GJ was not under oath, but lying to a GJ is a crime regardless of being under oath or not, assuming he was asked by them if he knew who was the leaker. Given the circumstances, one has to assume that he was asked, else why interview him? That, plus his public statements about not knowing who leaked and how everyone was cooperating to get to the bottom of this, puts him in a precarious situation.
My sense of the comment in the article was that Bush in general approved of Rove's anonymous contacts with the press...........it didn't suggest any kind of specificity. So then, if Bush broadly approved of the way Rove dealt with issues and the press, that's a blanket statement that, in light of his GJ testimony, maybe warrants a slap on the wrist. However, if Bush told Rove to go ahead and out Phlame, that's a serious act and his testimony in front of the GJ then becomes a serious and clear O of J. I read the article to mean the former; that Bush generally approved of the way Rove handled these kinds of problems without specifically directing him. Do you disagree?
Maybe this is why Fitzgerald has been playing it so quiet.
There have been many reasons to remove this president, and yet he's like a cat with 18 lives, double the normal count. I have become very cynical and don't trust anyone to do the right thing.
So maybe we will see something entertaining like Cheney resigning and Bush appointing Rice as VP. He then resigns and Condi pardons Bush, Cheney, Rove, etc. And then Condi appoints Dubya as VP, and resigns because the pardons were so controversial. And then Bush appoints Cheney as VP, while smirking...
Nah. As entertaining as that might be, they aren't that dumb.
If you say so. <g> |
