KEY Dem. 2008 SENATORS, RE: Libby

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Sen. FEINGOLD (D-WI):
http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/statement/05/10/2005A28A03.html

Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold On the Indictment of a Top Administration Official
October 28, 2005
As President Bush has said, this is a serious investigation and Patrick Fitzgerald has conducted this investigation in a dignified manner. In the wake of these charges, and the ongoing investigation, the President should remember the pledge he made to the American people that he would bring honor and dignity to the White House and change the tone in Washington. If he is to honor that pledge, the President must insist on a complete and truthful accounting of any unethical conduct by his administration in this matter and so should Congress. President Bush should make restoring the broken trust with the American people a top priority.


Sen. BIDEN (D-DE):
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13023856.htm
"This investigation puts an end to the question of whether or not these guys are hard-ball…players. What I mean is, they punish. They punish the opposition."

“They will use any method from going after John McCain’s two adopted children who are dark-skinned and implying that they’re illegitimate children with a black mistress to saying that John McCain’s wife was a drug addict…”

Biden, who has said he is running for president in 2008, also said Libby’s indictment “clearly implicates the vice president.

“Hey man, where I come from there is no plausible deniability,” the senator said.


Sen. CLINTON (D-NY):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5377172,00.html
This administration owes our CIA agents around the world a promise that their identities will never be jeopardized. And it owes the American people direct answers and responsible action.


Sen. KERRY (D-MA):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5206314
“Today’s indictment of the Vice President’s top aide and the continuing investigation of Karl Rove are evidence of White House corruption at the very highest levels, far from the ‘honor and dignity’ the president pledged to restore to Washington just five years ago.

“A chief architect of the war in Iraq, Scooter Libby, sworn to protect this country, used access to national security information not as weapons against our nation’s enemies, but as weapons against someone who dared to ask tough questions of a dishonest policy. Then they tried to cover it up rather than come clean with the American people, even as the President falsely claimed his Administration was cooperating with investigators. Not only was America misled into war, but a Nixonian effort to silence dissent has now left Americans wondering whether they can trust anything this Administration has to say.

“Today, almost on cue as bad news struck, the President delivered another rhetorical blast on the war on terror. But the war on terror is not a convenient political distraction, it’s a war we have to win. And to win the war on terror, we can’t afford to have senior administration officials playing political games with national security. The President needs to get serious about addressing our nation’s problems, starting by cleaning out the corruption in his Administration and then addressing the situation in Iraq, soaring gas prices, and a still sluggish economy.”


Sen. BAYH (D-IN):
No statement available.