In this clip which I am re-reposting from Truthdig.com, the President is asked by NPR's David Greene to cite examples of his commitment to accountability and he cites Scooter Libby (who he practically pardoned)!
In his spin he said, "He paid a high price," but we all know that the literal high price was paid by the I. Lewis Libby Defense Fund.
I guess we can credit him for not saying so with a straight face which shows that he has some semblance of a conscience. However when commenting on Alberto Gonzales, the President replies, "I haven't seen Congress say he's done anything wrong." In fact, a lie, or if he really hasn't, he just hasn"t been paying attention... at all.
(Find the clip of Senator Feinstein D-CA going over the laundry list of what Alberto Gonzales has done wrong here. It is a doozy.)
If you haven't clicked the first link yet, click here for good measure.
You have seen it for yourself. How can anyone trust him with the most powerful nation in the world?
You can't.
Just for giggles, here's the mother of all Alberto Gonzales montages.


Comments: 18
Helping Scooter Libby avoid accountability is showing zero commitment to accountability, just like Dick Cheney and George W. Bush have expanded their powers in every way to escape any and all accountability. This might be compared to the president being asked about his commitment to honesty only to have him site his many criminal deceptions leading up to the war in Iraq.
But does it really matter what he says any more? I mean there is zero credibility to this administration..
Jason, It is interesting that you can equate the cover-up of an act of Treason with lying about recieving felatio and then say something non-sensical like bragging about it would have preserved the sanctity of the Presidency. You obviously opted out of the Logic Course at the community college if you can compare the scandalous with the abominable.
Christine, You are also tumbling into logical somersaults. You claim that Joe Wilson lied. What Joe Wilson said was that Saddam Hussein did not buy or attempt to buy "Yellow-cake" uranium in Niger. This is what he was sent to investigate, and even though he reported that this claim was false the administration told the American people otherwise. So if Wilson is lying that means that these "recently released documents" have proof that Saddam Hussein attempted to buy or bought this uranium.
Joe Wilson wrote his OP-ED article because the president claimed that Saddam Hussein DID do this in his State of the Union Address preceding the invasion of Iraq.
Joe Wilson did the research for the government and the Bush Administration disregarded it, and when he spoke out against it to try to stop the country from going into an unnecessary war, the Bush Administration punished him by going after his wife who was head of Counter-proliferation at the CIA. She was the one who was supposed to find the WMDs in Iraq. Guess what? She never found credible proof. That's no good when you are trying to put the country on a war-footing.
Have you never read the Novak article? Have you read anything about what happenned with the leaks? Karl Rove and Scooter Libby are not the only people to leak Valerie Plame's identity. In fact the first person to leak it was Richard Armitage over dinner to Bob Woodward. It's to Bob Woodward's credit that he didn't report such gossip. There was an orchestrated effort by the Bush Administration to leak Valerie Plame's identity.
Watch Frontline: News War (clickable link) at PBS.org to see what I'm talking about.
Way after the fact Bush even admitted that the information was wrong. He just blamed the CIA for not taking it out of HIS speech which only shows that the President has speeches written before he checks to see if the content is indeed factual.
Now I call upon you to present your documents that showed that Wilson lied, or let this (clickable link) be the final word.
What a load of crap.
The office of the President is not sacred.
If it were, we would need one hell of an exorcism to clear the demons of fraud, treachery, deceit, covetousness, false witness, and idolatry that the AWOL in Chief has brought to the premises in the last six years.
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?081307/081307_ha_wilson&Hannitys_America&New%20Insight&acc&Politics&-1&News&353&&&new
All that the Washington Post article says is that Wilson lied about his wife reccommending him to be the investigator. It is possible that his wife could have recommended him without him knowing it. It then proceeds to trump up a situation that explains how Valerie's identity was accidentally released. Accidentally released by at least three high ranking people in the Bush Administration we have come to find. In the end, it is inconclusive whether or not Saddam Hussein sought uranium and Bush was touting it as a big reason to go to war (he then WITHDREW IT under scrutiny), then members of his administration STILL LEAKED Valerie Plame's identity as we all know that Robert Novak divulged it based on information he recieved from them after Joe Wilson wrote his OP-ED piece about what he DIDN'T FIND during his investigation. He did not lie about that.
Lera---I've been looking for another interview I seen on the tube the other night,..I think that's the direction they are going for....if this all pans out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7i0VDVGAY4
As I have said,..something about this whole thing smells foul,....