Reading today's transcript from the daily White House press briefing is a breath of fresh air. The whole Plame Outing case is complicated and too much to get into right now except that seeing a colleague go to jail for protecting Karl freakin' Rove has fired up the White House press into actually taking the White House to task (read: their jobs). You can read the transcript from today here but I will quote my favorite question (a follow-up really):
Scott, if I could point out: Contradictory to that statement, on September 29th of 2003, while the investigation was ongoing, you clearly commented on it. You were the first one to have said that if anybody from the White House was involved, they would be fired. And then, on June 10th of 2004, at Sea Island Plantation, in the midst of this investigation, when the president made his comments that, yes, he would fire anybody from the White House who was involved. So why have you commented on this during the process of the investigation in the past, but now you’ve suddenly drawn a curtain around it under the statement of, 'We’re not going to comment on an ongoing investigation'?
Damn! who was that? I don't know but I'd like to.
There are two things to think about in this case to me: (1) what would the Republicans have said if this incident happened during Clinton's presidency? Wow, talk about "Un-American" diatribe - kinda makes me sweat just thinking about it. (2) It is good to remember that this whole thing revolves around the White House trying to create evidence of Saddam buying nuclear material to justify their war to the world. National Security took a back seat to politics, simple as that.
Posted by dmason at July 11, 2005 04:52 PM