White House: It Would Be ‘Awkward’ If Bush Were Investigated By Executive Agency

No, Dana, you're not a legal scholar-far from it. You're not even a mediocre press person.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/25/white-house-it-would-be-awkward-if-bush-were-investigated-by-executive-agency/

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White House: It Would Be ‘Awkward’ If Bush Were Investigated By Executive Agency

White House spokesperson Dana Perino struggled again today to explain why Vice President Cheney was exempted from a presidential order meant to safeguard classified national security information.

Perino stuck by her argument from Friday that President Bush never intended for the executive order to apply to Cheney any differently than it applies to the president’s own office. Asked why Bush was exempted, Perino claimed it would be “awkward” for the president to ask an executive branch agency “to come in and investigate himself.”

On Friday, Perino refused to say whether Cheney is a member of the executive branch. Today, she returned with an answer: like “every vice president,” Cheney has “legislative and executive functions.” Does that mean he is a member of the executive branch? “Look, I’m not a legal scholar,” Perino said, again calling it an “interesting constitutional question.”

Perino claimed ignorance about other key questions in this scandal. She said she didn’t know when President Bush had altered the executive order to exempt Cheney, or why the order was amended in 2003.

Also, Perino rejected a call today from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recuse himself from the Justice Department’s internal debates over whether Cheney is violating the executive order. “No, I don’t think that’s necessary,” said Perino.

or maybe it isn't at all.

I assume that, to avoid 'awkwardness', all Congressional supeonas will be answered in a timely and complete manner?

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What's Pat Fitzgerald doing?

:hi:

He should have the goods on them in about 10 or 15 years. (They have to reassemble all of Dick Cheney's shredded documents.)

I mean, before the lord of the rings took over?

Her press briefings are worse than Scottie McC's ... NEVER have I seen someone so inept even at trumpeting talking points (if not outright LYING).

She is a grand role model for all who aspire to a position of spokes person for the Executive branch of this putrid Regime.

Way to go, Schumer!!!

Way to go!!! :applause:

They'd be passing out the smelling salts on all of the Sunday talk shows.

They'd be burning bodies in the streets! Rush and the rest would have agitated for an invasion of the White House, and the beloved Republican party leaders would be crying for blood sacrifice.