Bush, Cheney and the Leaks

It's always looked odd that Cheney and Bush were questioned together without being under oath. More than ever, the president and vice president need to come clean with the American people. We need to know why they were so wrong about the WMDs in Iraq. We need to know if they were involved in the leaks. We need to know if they were selectively leaking in order to make a better case for war in Iraq. We need to know who was authorized to leak the material. Was it just Scooter Libby or were there others? It seems to me there are many more questions that need to be answered.

Once again, it's useful to go back even a few days and review what has happened; here's an ABC News article on the Joe Wilson interview last Sunday:

In an exclusive interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," former U.S. ambassador Joe Wilson called upon the White House to "come clean" and release the transcripts of prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's interviews with President Bush and Vice President Cheney in the CIA leak investigation.

Wilson, whose wife's secret employment by the CIA was revealed following the leak of classified intelligence information, insisted, "I think it is long past time for the White House to come clean on all of this."

When asked whether or not Wilson and Valerie Plame, his wife, intend to file a civil suit against the White House, the former ambassador replied, "We're holding keeping all options open at this point."

White House press secretary Scott McClellan at a press conference on Friday was barraged by questions about a court filing in the CIA leak case in which Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, told prosecutors that he was authorized by President Bush to leak classified information to rebut charges made by Wilson.

Senator Pat Roberts, who seems to put his loyalty to the president and the Republican Party ahead of his loyalty to his country, has refused to properly investigate the abuse of evidence in the months before the war in Iraq. Isn't it time for members of Congress to do their job and demand real investigations instead of accepting White House controlled whitewashes?