Opinion: Administration: Sinners or Saints?
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More good stuff today from our Dust-up on the Scooter Libby trial. First up, a counter-intuitive excerpt from The National Review‘s Byron York:
The bottom line is that the Bush White House was a model of cooperation in this case. That’s especially true compared to the last administration when, faced with a criminal investigation again focused on the truthfulness of sworn testimony, the White House and its allies claimed executive privilege, protection-function privilege, bookstore-bookbuyer privilege, mother-daughter privilege and God knows what else in an effort to frustrate the independent counsel. And don’t forget that Susan McDougal, the president’s former business partner, went to jail for 18 months rather than answer the question of whether President Clinton testified truthfully at her trial (at which she was convicted of fraud).
And a when-did-he-know-it bit from The American Prospect‘s Jeff Lomonaco:
I’d like to hear Cheney confirm what the trial (and pretrial discovery phase) presented convincing evidence of: that Cheney and Libby participated in a very limited -- indeed, limited to the two of them -- coordinated effort to disclose Plame’s CIA status, which they certainly acted for all the world like they understood was sensitive information, to reporters, and that Libby leaked the Plame information to one reporter in particular, Judith Miller of The New York Times, at Cheney’s behest.