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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (766466)	11/19/2007 7:40:32 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "T. Boone will not give Kerry a public forum to discuss the issue." I believe you have put your finger on it. That's the heart of the matter. There is no way in Hell that T. Boone will ever put himself in the position of actually having information submitted to him IN A PUBLIC FORUM. And, there is no way in Hell he would ever actually cut such a check --- his public pledge not withstanding. (Just a loudmouth with an partisan ax to grind --- although also a very credible voice on trends in the oil business... he has been one of the LOUDEST VOICES arguing for the proposition that the world is AT, or nearly AT, Peak Oil production....)

To: pompsander who wrote (766466)	11/19/2007 7:41:20 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I would love to see flip flopper Kerri on a lie detector

To: pompsander who wrote (766466)	11/19/2007 8:41:51 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Kerry has, since 2005, opened up most is not all of his service and medical records. Absolutely false. You will never see all those records. if there was nothing compromising contained in there you would have seen them already....long ago. And Kerry can deny all he wants...BUT NO ONE can argue that he threw his comrades under the bus peddling lies and half truths when he got back to further his personal ambitions. Its not his honorable service which is the issue in my eyes, its what he did when he got back that stinks. Kerry is the lowest form of scum. J.

To: pompsander who wrote (766466)	11/20/2007 7:33:05 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Former Aide Blames Bush for Leak Deceit By MATT APUZZO (Associated Press Writer) From Associated Press November 20, 2007 6:45 PM EST In this Friday, May 5, 2006, file photo, White House press secretary Scott McClellan smiles after finishing his last news briefing. RON EDMONDS WASHINGTON - Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame. "There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself." Bush's chief of staff at the time was Andrew Card. The excerpt, posted on the Web site of publisher PublicAffairs, renews questions about what went on in the West Wing and how much Bush and Cheney knew about the leak. For years, it was McClellan's job to field - and often duck - those types of questions. Now that he's spurring them, answers are equally hard to come by. White House press secretary Dana Perino said it wasn't clear what McClellan meant in the excerpt. "The president has not and would not ask his spokespeople to pass on false information," she said. McClellan turned down interview requests Tuesday. Plame maintains the White House quietly outed her to reporters. Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, said the leak was retribution for his public criticism of the Iraq war. The accusation dogged the administration and made Plame a cause celebre among many Democrats. McClellan's book, "What Happened," isn't due out until April, and the excerpt released Monday was merely a teaser. It doesn't get into detail about how Bush and Cheney were involved or reveal what happened behind the scenes. In the fall of 2003, after authorities began investigating the leak, McClellan told reporters that he'd personally spoken to Rove, who was Bush's top political adviser, and Libby, who was Cheney's chief of staff. "They're good individuals, they're important members of our White House team, and that's why I spoke with them, so that I could come back to you and say that they were not involved," McClellan said at the time. Both men, however, were involved. Rove was one of the original sources for the newspaper column that identified Plame. Libby also spoke to reporters about the CIA officer and was convicted of lying about those discussions. He is the only person to be charged in the case. Since that news conference, however, the official White House stance has shifted and it has been difficult to get a clear picture of what happened behind closed doors around the time of the leak. McClellan's flat denials gave way to a steady drumbeat of "no comment." And Bush's original pledge to fire anyone involved in the leak became a promise to fire anyone who "committed a crime." In a CNN interview earlier this year, McClellan made no suggestion that Bush knew either Libby or Rove was involved in the leak. McClellan said his statements to reporters were what he and the president "believed to be true at the time based on assurances that we were both given." Bush most recently addressed the issue in July after commuting Libby's 30-month prison term. He acknowledged that some in the White House were involved in the leak. Then, after repeatedly declining to discuss the ongoing investigation, he said the case was closed and it was time to move on. --- Associated Press writer Jennifer Loven contributed to this report.