So What?
Posted on | July 12, 2007
Four years late, President Bush seems nearly ready to acknowledge that someone in his administration leaked the name and identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson—thereby compromising all of her work, and endangering the lives of agents and informants—to the press:
A reporter brought up Bush’s decision to commute the prison sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and asked the president to weigh in on the “morality” of his advisers leaking the name.
“I’m aware of the fact that perhaps somebody in the administration did disclose the name of that person (Plame),” Bush said, “and, you know, I’ve often thought about what would have happened had that person come forth and said, ‘I did it.’ Would we have had this, you know, endless hours of investigation. … It’s been a tough issue for a lot of people in the White House, and it’s — it’s run its course, and now we’re going to move on.”
No follow-up questions were asked about Bush’s initial pledge, which was not kept, to fire anyone in the administration found to be involved in the leaking of Plame’s name.
Was there a visible shrug? Reminder: it appears that the president still hasn’t conducted any internal investigation into the matter. Can he make it any clearer that he never will? Mr. Bush, you can’t “move on” when you’ve proven total lack of concern.
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