AP Analysis: Probe of CIA leak reveals administration tactics

[sabra]

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=109454

Analysis: Probe of CIA leak reveals administration tactics

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's CIA-leak inquiry is focusing attention on what long has been a Bush White House tactic: slash-and-burn assaults on its critics, particularly those opposed to the president's Iraq war policies.

If top officials are indicted, it could seriously erode the administration's credibility and prove yet another embarrassment to President Bush on the larger issue of how he and his national security team marshaled information - much of it later shown to be inaccurate - to support their case for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

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Anxiety at the White House increased after Bush adviser Karl Rove's fourth appearance last week before Fitzgerald's grand jury, and with a New York Times reporter's firsthand account of her dealings with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide.

Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes, the Bush administration's public diplomacy chief and a longtime Bush confidante, said, however, that the White House was not distracted by the investigation. "It's not something that's affecting the daily business of the White House," Hughes said in a taped interview aired Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show. "It's business as usual."

[ck4829]

1. Just like a crime family

Try to take you out, and if they can't, then they'll take the ones you love out.

[crispini]

2. Yeah, RIGHT, Karen Hughes.

I'm obsessed with this story and I'm a thousand miles outside the beltway. Now, admittedly, I'm a news junkie, but you just KNOW that everyone in Washington is absolutely CONSUMED with this. It's the best whodunit since Watergate, bar none.

[berner59]

6. Embarrassment???

They said this would be another "embarrassment"??? How about the crime of the century!!! Here's proof finally of what we've known all along...this can't be blown off as an embarrassment...

[deminks]

3. How many jobs will KKKaren be able to hold down...

after everyone is indicted? And she herself was a member of WHIG, there may be some serious help wanted posters up in a few days. Who would work there? Seriously.

[LiberalEsto]

7. Halliburton will offer her a cozy job

These scum always find some way to keep raking in money.

[cry baby]

4. "It's business as usual". Yeah - nothing to see here, move on...

[MuseRider]

5. Seriously erode their

credibility? Approval rating at what? 38%? What credibility?