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October 09, 2003
Making excuses
From the Tom Paine.com blog, Take On the News, a look at President Bush's latest excuse for his not knowing anything about who leaked Valerie Plame's information.
"I have no idea," President Bush said yesterday, "whether we'll find out who the leaker is, partially because, in all due respect to your profession, you do a very good job of protecting the leakers." Pardon us? First of all, journalists do a good job of protecting their sources; an administration official who cold-calls a reporter and releases information amounting to a federal crime is not a confidential source -- he or she is just a vindictive person. Not only that, but we see from Bob Novak's July 12, 2001 column that he will expose sources - in that instance, Robert Hanssen - where national security is at stake. He wrote, "disclosing confidential sources is unthinkable for a reporter seeking to probe behind the scenes in official Washington, but the circumstances here are obviously extraordinary." Surely exposing an undercover CIA agent is also "extraordinary." Why won't the White House demand a similar concern for national security from Novak now?
Posted by thorswitch at October 9, 2003 12:36 AM
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