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Can George Bush be tried as an adult?
With all the indictments and allegations floating around in Washington these days, one has to ask.
The fish rots from the head. There is no way that Rove, Libby, Hannah or any other mid level staffer at the White House leaked the name of a covert CIA operative without explicit approval from the President and/or Vice President. Worse than that, two of the three have already admitted discussing her with the press, while in fact neither of them had reason to know in the first place. The question therefore doesn't have to be who leaked to the press, the question is, who leaked to Libby and Rove? Rove, after all, was a political aide at the time. In all probability, not even the VP had a need to know agent's name, only -- at best -- that there were assets in the field close to the source. 'Need to Know' is a very small club; that's the point. And the only guy in the White House who we know could have known was George W. Bush.
With all the indictments and allegations floating around in Washington these days, one has to ask.
The fish rots from the head. There is no way that Rove, Libby, Hannah or any other mid level staffer at the White House leaked the name of a covert CIA operative without explicit approval from the President and/or Vice President. Worse than that, two of the three have already admitted discussing her with the press, while in fact neither of them had reason to know in the first place. The question therefore doesn't have to be who leaked to the press, the question is, who leaked to Libby and Rove? Rove, after all, was a political aide at the time. In all probability, not even the VP had a need to know agent's name, only -- at best -- that there were assets in the field close to the source. 'Need to Know' is a very small club; that's the point. And the only guy in the White House who we know could have known was George W. Bush.
posted by Sparky at 9:33 AM
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