Reply #8: "Scandal in the White House" was leading phrase on NBC Today show [View All]

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Unfortunately for the Bush gang this scandal is not a difficult one for the average viewer to grasp and it goes beyond just Libby's wrongdoing because Bush and Cheney stayed silent and alleged having no knowledge about the leak during this entire investigation that has now exposed the central role played by their most powerful chief advisors.

Even those who have only casually watched the news have heard Bush and Scott McClellan first provide assurances that Rove and Libby had no involvement and that Bush wanted to get to the bottom of it and there would be repercussions for anyone involved and then their repeated refusals to comment on an ongoing investigation.

But now, after the indictments, Cheney is silent while Bush has still not expressed disapproval or regret for what his top advisers were involved in or any explanation of why he and Cheney supposedly had no knowledge of the matter when their top subordinates were directly involved.

Logical conclusion to even a casual observer is that if they didn't know what was going on, they should have know. And if they did know all along or find out during the course of the investigation, they should have taken some action to clean house or hold these people accountable rather than staying silent and enabling their staff to obstruct the investigation.