Is the Bush White House Starting to Fall?
The New York Times reported today in regard to the Valerie Plame/CIA leak probe that Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, will be charged with making false statements to a federal grand jury. An indictment of Bush's Chief of Staff Karl Rove could be not far behind.
David Gergen, a former adviser to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, told CNN's "Larry King Live" that indictments in the case could have an enormous impact on the Iraq war.
"Because if there are indictments, it will not only be people close to the president, the vice president of the United States, but they will raise questions about whether criminal acts were perpetrated to help get the country into war."
Any indictments against Rove or Libby would be politically damaging to the White House at a time when Bush's approval ratings are already suffering and his agenda is falling to pieces. This week alone Harriet Miers withdrew as a SCOTUS nominee and the number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq war surpassed 2,000.
Ms Plame's identity was leaked after her husband, diplomat Joseph Wilson, accused the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence to support military action against Iraq.
And in all this legal mumbo jumbo let's not forgot Jeff Gannon! To be honest I couldn't recall Gannon's name but a Google Search of the phrase "gay escort cia leak" quickly produced the required information. Gannon was one of the "reporters" apparently hand-picked to "out" Plame.
2:12pm Addenda: Libby has resigned after being charged.
David Gergen, a former adviser to presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, told CNN's "Larry King Live" that indictments in the case could have an enormous impact on the Iraq war.
"Because if there are indictments, it will not only be people close to the president, the vice president of the United States, but they will raise questions about whether criminal acts were perpetrated to help get the country into war."
Any indictments against Rove or Libby would be politically damaging to the White House at a time when Bush's approval ratings are already suffering and his agenda is falling to pieces. This week alone Harriet Miers withdrew as a SCOTUS nominee and the number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq war surpassed 2,000.
Ms Plame's identity was leaked after her husband, diplomat Joseph Wilson, accused the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence to support military action against Iraq.
And in all this legal mumbo jumbo let's not forgot Jeff Gannon! To be honest I couldn't recall Gannon's name but a Google Search of the phrase "gay escort cia leak" quickly produced the required information. Gannon was one of the "reporters" apparently hand-picked to "out" Plame.
2:12pm Addenda: Libby has resigned after being charged.
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