Bush Logic about "leakers"

Lets talk this one out:

GW Bush is mad/sorry, becuase information was leaked from the Administration about Plame ala. CIA operative. Okay I can see this since this is the most secretive Administration in American history.

--Yet, the main charge that this was done to damage/threaten AMB. Wilson through uncovering his wife.- he never really even dealt with the motivation as to why her name was leaked--

So with Bush Logic, he's just sorry that He/Rove got caught trying to destroy or damage/get revenge on people whom expose the adminstration, so when he means "Leakers" he really means AMB. Wilson and not whomever leaked her name to Novak.

Good going Bush, you got great logic.

I keep pushing my pet purpose, but let me lay out the four commonly referred to:

1. Revenge on Wilson.

2. Warning to any others with similar information or gripes.

3. To indicate nepotism, and thus discredit Wilson.

4. To imply the trip was self-initiated (Wilson got wife to send him) and thus discredit Wilson.


These are not, as is often pointed out, mutually exclusive. But the primary one is #4. If the
administration could show that Wilson was chomping at the bit to get to Niger, they could paint him
and his investigation as partisan. The story would run: Here's Wilson yelling about the false
information in the President's speech, but no one could really believe his investigation in Niger was
objective since he was a Clinton man, got himself assigned to Niger the previous fall, then found
what he WANTED, and reported to the CIA. It is little wonder that the President gave no credence to
Wilson's report. We've seen him as a maverick all along.

The nepotism "take" (3) was thick-headed Novak's, who simply didn't "read" the leak in the manner
intended.

#1-2 are side benefits, only, not the primary reasons IMHO.

Once we see #4 as primary, we see another kind of mind working. One which is intelligent, cold and
dispassionately calculating, trying to substitute one narrative to undercut another. Not a mind given
to firebombing opponents (like Rove?), but one which tries to quickly and surely relegate Wilson to
the junkpile of history. Nothing personal; he's just gone. No credibility. No more editorials. Nada.

To my mind, this places it in Cheney's lap.


#1-2 (revenge and warning) make better stories, but they might draw us away from the true
leakers.

IMHO

I was just saying that El Bush never "once" even discussed or talked about "Why" her name was leaked, the motivations on why someone in his administration would do it in the first place.

Damaging Wilson by the use of a nepotism charge, still does not destroy the primary motivation for the leak, and that's damage control and revenge (I fully agree with you).
Wilson will not go away, he still has much documentation to support his charge on the false Yellowcake story to back him up.

I was just stating that are boy GW, didn't even deal with the motivation of the leak, but just dealt with the "Leak" itself.

Bush has not distanced himself from this like he thinks he has, it just takes a little critical thinking to see this by his words.