The useful arts, seattle.: CIA leak probe is a joke

This whole CIA leak probe is such a joke, I mean despite the fact that it was a Novak column that released the information, it was in relation to why Former Ambassador Wilson was even sent to investigate the issue in Africa. But reporting on it is so dishonest, Kristin came away from an NPR report yesterday thinking the CIA agent was dead, when she is alive and well and really just a covert desk jockey. Not to say that breaking the law in this case was ok, but to vilify EVERYTHING as an evil plot by the president is getting to be too much.

Federal attorney questions president on operative leak
(Columbia Daily Tribune)

Neither the White House nor the justice department would offer details about what is believed to be the first time the president has been interviewed by prosecutors investigating possible criminal activity.

Now that sounds a lot like this is a big deal and Bush is the first president to be interviewed for a criminal investigation.

Bush Interviewed About CIA Leak
(Washington Post)

Bush's session with prosecutors is unusual but not unprecedented. Bill Clinton testified or was interviewed at the White House in criminal investigations at least seven times during his presidency, on matters that included a probe of the death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster Jr., campaign finance irregularities, the Whitewater inquiry and the Monica S. Lewinsky investigation that led to his impeachment.

The post clears it up a bit.

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The facts I stated are only those that have been reported in the press, which are based on administration sources and the comments of the 7 reporters who the story was shopped around to, including the comments of Novak himself.

a good example: in the washington post

Posted by: Scott | July 1, 2004 09:50 PM

June 25, 2004

CIA leak probe is a joke

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