Monday, July 25, 2005

Attorney Gen Gonzales & Andy Card in Leak Mess

In Sunday's NY Times, Frank Rich amazing op/ed reminds people of Attorney Gen Gonzales' role in the Plame Outing: "As WH counsel, he was the one 1st notified that the Justice Dept, at the request of the CIA, had opened an investigation into the outing of Plame. That notification came at 8:30 pm on Sept. 29/03, but it took Gonzales 12 more hrs to inform the WH staff that it must "preserve all materials" relevant to the investigation." Hmm, can anyone say 12 hr shredding party? But the borderline criminal behavior of our nation's Attorney Gen gets worse: On Sunday's broadcast of CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer brought up the Frank Rich column stating that it took Gonzales 12 more hrs to inform the WH staff that it must “preserve all materials” and unbelievably Gonzales admits this, courtesy of Crooks and Liars: Q-SCHIEFFER: Let me just ask you the obvious question, Mr Attorney Gen. Did you tell anybody at the WH? A-GONZALES: I told one person in the White House of the notification, and immediately — ah, I told the chief of staff (Andrew Card). And immediately the next morning, I told the President and, shortly thereafter, there was a notification sent out to all the members of the WH staff. Think Progress sums it up so perfectly: So the one person who knew that an investigation was underway was Chief of Staff Andrew Card, who also happened to be aboard Air Force One in July 03 w/ Ari Fleischer, Colin Powell & the top secret State Dept document that contained the identity of Valerie Wilson. So, did Card tell Rove or Libby or anyone for that matter the night before Alberto Gonzales sent out the email to staff that they would soon be asked to preserve all documents? A great question for this new can of worms.
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