More Dishonesty From a Dishonest President
By DOUG THOMPSON
Jul 19, 2005, 07:34
"The Rant" column
Capitol Hill Blue
President George W. Bush got another chance Monday to prove he was as a good as his word. Once again, he failed to keep a promise made to the American people.
In September 2003 Bush said he would fire “anyone” in the White House caught leaking the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the media. He repeated the promise in June 2004, saying flat out that any administration official found to have talked to the press about Plame would be dismissed immediately.
That, however, was before his closest advisor, Karl Rove, got caught giving the information to Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, who also identified Vice President Richard Cheney’s chief of staff as the secondary source for the leak. [...] Read it all at
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7060.shtml or http://tinyurl.com/9a7zg
© Virginia Metze
Jul 19, 2005, 07:34
"The Rant" column
Capitol Hill Blue
President George W. Bush got another chance Monday to prove he was as a good as his word. Once again, he failed to keep a promise made to the American people.
In September 2003 Bush said he would fire “anyone” in the White House caught leaking the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the media. He repeated the promise in June 2004, saying flat out that any administration official found to have talked to the press about Plame would be dismissed immediately.
That, however, was before his closest advisor, Karl Rove, got caught giving the information to Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, who also identified Vice President Richard Cheney’s chief of staff as the secondary source for the leak. [...] Read it all at
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7060.shtml or http://tinyurl.com/9a7zg
© Virginia Metze
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