Sunday, April 09, 2006
"If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is...."
Bush has been quoted several times in the past as saying. So I was suprised, nay shocked to hear the following this past week about the adminstation that pledged to restore "honor and integrity" to the White House back in 2000:
"Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq to New York Times reporter Judith Miller in 2003 with the specific permission of President Bush [emphasis added], according to a new court filing from the special prosecutor in the case." (click here to read more)
Or maybe actually I wasn't:
The White House is cracking down on leaks -- except their own, of course.... (via AMERICAblog.com)
Bush says he doesn't have to obey the newly-signed Patriot Act
Bush wants to make it easier for the IRS to sell your tax filing info.
"President Bush and other top officials in his administration used the National Security Agency to secretly wiretap the home and office telephones and monitor private email accounts of members of the United Nations Security Council in early 2003 to determine how foreign delegates would vote on a U.N. resolution that paved the way for the U.S.-led war in Iraq, NSA documents show." (click here to read more)
"Bush's 'hatchet man' in the NASA press room, George Deutsch, resigned from the agency following revelations that he lied on his resume." (click here to read more)
"In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians."(click here to read more)
I could go on but it looks like it's nice outside today.
As a recent New York Times editorial put it:
"We can't think of a president who has gone to the American people more often than George W. Bush has to ask them to forget about things like democracy, judicial process and the balance of powers — and just trust him. We also can't think of a president who has deserved that trust less."
Couldn't have said it better myself....
