Bush: Not Involved 'In Any Way' in CIA Leak Probe

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/357662|top|01-01-2004::22:03|reuters.html

President Bush on Thursday sought to distance himself from an investigation into whether someone in his administration illegally leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer.

"I'm not involved with the investigation in any way, shape or form," Bush told reporters here after wrapping up a hunting trip with his father and a family friend.

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Asked whether Ashcroft had made the right decision in recusing himself from the case, Bush replied: "You're going to have to ask him. I mean, I don't know the details which caused him to recuse himself.

"I've told the members of the White House to totally cooperate," Bush said. "And the sooner they find out the truth, the better, as far as I'm concerned."

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Your right. He would NEVER lie to us :eyes:

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Old Dick is strangely quiet...

because the incriminating evidence is gone since it took Asscan this entire time to clean up the place so nothing would be found..

"I don't know the details"

what's new. he dont even know the details of eating a goddam pretzel.

as somebody at DU said, all chimp has to do is demand, as the president of the USA*, the name of the leaker. why have an investigation at all if he's so eager for the truth?

"all chimp has to do is demand, as the president of the USA*, the name of the leaker."

He doesn't mind "demanding" that everyone in the world do his bidding. Every time he opens his mouth he's in demand mode. Why should this be any different? That is, if he really wanted to get to the truth, which of course he doesn't.

"the interesting thing about being president, is I don't have to answer to anyone." Or something like that.

Bush to advisors: "I think I'm gettin the hang of this!"

the thing that gets me is that this is far worst but the pattern is
oh so similar.

about the pattern. Remember that Reagan and Bush 1 knew nothing about Iran Contra.

"They have lies so big the don't make a noise, they tell them so well like a secret disease." FZ

Does that mean he won't be investigated as a potential source of the leak? It could be him.

He has told the members of the White House (Staff?) to totally cooperate. Does this mean that if he hadn't told them to cooperate, they wouldn't be required by law to cooperate? Or is the operative word "totally?" Maybe they would only have to partially cooperate otherwise?

He knows who leaked just like he knows who mailed anthrax. The neo-cons don't want them exposed or arrested -- until maybe after the election.

but involved in the leak?

Rove's too close to this, and while early reports centered on the involvement of the office of the VP, that doesn't mean Bush didn't talk to Rove about it.

Unfortunately, I don't think there's a one in the bunch with enough scruples to come forward and tell the truth, about how it came about, and what transpired after Ashcroft's determination to give the WH sufficient time to cover tracks. And, that's what it will take to get to the truth of the matter.

Cheers.

Any time he denies knowledge or openly shirks responsibility for anything except fundraising, it just fits his character so well that I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.

"not involved with the investigation in any way, shape or form" sounds about right. "I don't know the details" is also pretty typical.

Rove, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, on the other hand... well, they haven't said shit yet, as far as I know. Don't expect 'em to, either, until they're ready to finger the fall guy.

...and Junior is a "dirty trickster" from way back, especially when it involves what he believes to be revenge.

He seems quite adept at knowing nothing, at all, ever.

Perhaps just a little too adept.

it. He's involved in all the planning. The GOPs whole game plan has to make him appear stupid so that he can be absolved of all involvement in criminal activity.

You know, put him up there as the puppet when in reality he doesn't know shit about what goes on in his own administration. Then, if the shit hits the fan, he is protected because he honestly wasn't involved. They did it with Reagan and now Bush is their vehicle.

Period.

why I find it so NIXONIAN

this stinks worse than a barrel of texas catfish decomposing in the august sun

of course he's involved and ultimately responsibile for the action of his wrecking crew

during the 2000 campaign - didn't he say something about taking swift action if there were even the hint of a scandal?

all he's done is regarding this scandal and other scandals is to duck and hide in the bushes... not my fault, don't blame me, I know nothing

his excuses are piled higher than MT. Everest

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the buck stops with you george.
and someday somebody is going to make THAT stick.

But it is very likely that he, indeed, knows nothing of this plot. You would be hard pressed to find another person who has the same outright contempt for knowledge and intellect as bu$h.

He knows precisely what his handlers want him to know at any given moment. Something as complex and sensitive as the Plame business is WAY over his pin head. Letting him know anything about this would have been the equivalent of giving Beavis a flamethrower!

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dbt

It's really about the only thing he has a talent for. He just loves screwing over people who he thinks have wronged him. Rove is the same way, which is one reason they get on so well. I tend to believe that, at the very least, he approved of the Plame outing as part of a Wilson smear campaign.

he was nasty, and people were afraid of him.

The man doesn't even read the newspaper. If his advisors don't tell him, he doesn't know squat.

It's sad, so very sad....

or he's lying. Either way he should resign in disgrace.

Now that junior has told reporters and others, I'm sure this will take a load off his mind and he'll be able now to do the work the American people want him to do.

Who cares what this liar says!

Neither has Ashcroft, to my knowledge. If either of them have, I'd like to add them to my sig line.

I know noTHING,

I am not involved in either - in fact I signed the Moveon affidavit that I didn't leak the name/known who did it. Did W do that? I'd like to know.
What this article sez is: "They are not after me!" Duh!

is lying.

I mean, if he really wanted to know who in his inner circle leaked the name of a national security asset to the press, how come he doesn't just ask 'em, point blank? And isn't this something he should really want to know, if he's actually, y'know, the Commander In Chief 'n' stuff, and actually concerned to protect the security of the country?

But instead, he has been determinedly "Not involved in any way" since the word first came out back last summer.

Come to think of it, "Not involved in any way" pretty much describes his whole philosophy of life.

bush* has had since July to become involved in the effort to expose the TRAITOR hiding in his White House. This TRAITOR has impeded the War on Terrorism and made all US citizens less safe.

bush*s NON-INVOLVEMENT is REMARKABLE. If you were president, and it became known that a TRAITOR was hiding in the White House, would you be "not involved in any way". I would have this traitor's ass in a sling before the sun went down.

bush*s non-involvement is remarkable, and circumstantial evidence of complicity.

such a busy guy...terror alerts,
record bankruptcies, millions of
jobs lost, military deaths daily,
and he is out murdering birds for fun.

Our country is under attack and he just sits in the classroom reading and smiling! As far as him "demanding the truth"----it's hard not to laugh!

"undercover." They will say that they couldn't have known because it was classified that she was "undercover".

Ya lie 16 words
and whaddya get?
Some more soldiers killed
and deeper in debt.

St. Peter don't you call me
cause I can't go
I owe my soul
to Haliburton an' oil.

of having to prove the leaker had knowledge of Plame's covert status, not just CIA. Makes prosector's job much more difficult.

...if Plame was running an undercover network isn't it rather unlikely that she would be advertising the fact that she was a Company employee? Taking that as a given, they can hardly claim that it was common knowledge that she was CIA, and if they knew she was Company, but was pretending not to be, isn't that the definition of "undercover"?

Perhaps they didn't specifically say it to Novak, but they did tell him not to use her name...but he did anyway. And then, a couple of days later, somebody told the guys at NY Newsday she was undercover.

well in the land of Oz, the Great Oz has spoken.

& if he wanted the truth so badly, it's unfortunate he gave Rove 3 months to bury the evidence :eyes:

their heads will roll?

Oh, I forgot. With Bush, the buck always stops elsewhere.

is call a meeting of his entire staff and let them know in no uncertain terms, that he expects at least one letter of resignation on his desk by the morning. End of problem. We should expect nothing less from the President of the United States.

The MBA President? He was going to run this country like a business? Well in my business, when someone breaks the law or even just screws up a job, you can be damn sure I will know by the end of the day exactly who did it and what happened.