The Washington Post continues covering the blown cover affair with a few new details. Wilson himself verifies that several reporters called him asking about his wife shortly after the alleged leak. It's still hard to believe that people in the Bush administration actually *shopped around* the information about Wilson's wife to at least six different journalists before Novak finally bit. How incredibly cynical.
Some bloggers are suggesting the White House release phone records to show who called whom back on that fateful day. After all, they recently released their phone records (to a conservative reporter, natch) in an attempt to embarrass Wesley Clark (long story, but the so-called liberal media tried to turn a Clark joke about the White House not returning his calls into some sort of Gore-like "problems with the truth" scandal). So there is a precedent here, and it would answer any questions pretty quickly.
Bush himself says he has no plans to ask his staff who was doing the leaking. That's the kind of leadership we've come to expect from President Flight Suit. I'm sure it is too much to ask that he might legally be considered an accessory or at the very least obstructing the investigation, that there be legal consequences for the president. After all, there's not a blowjob involved.
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"The Leak" was a lead story on CNN this morning. Their main intel reporter said they had this information back in July, but nobody was interested. Typical. Nobody was interested in the beginnings of Watergate, either, but did that stop Woodward and Bernstein? No!
The intel reporter also said that the story will likely go nowhere because reporters won't reveal their sources. Once they do, they're out of business. So we'll see if the Justice Dept. does anything at all about it.
Maybe if someone had leaked that Mrs. Wilson gave blowjobs as part of her covert operations......
Posted by: Perkusi on September 29, 2003 08:02 AM