Respondeat Superior
The Executive Branch is a big operation, and surely the Chief Executive cannot keep track of what everyone is doing, whom everyone is calling, how everyone is handling their business, even in the White House. Conventional wisdom surely holds that Karl Rove has latitude to act for and on behalf of the President in political matters, even without the President's immediate supervision.
May we reasonably believe, however, that Scooter Libby enjoys the same autonomy and authority in the Vice President's Office?
Perjury is a rotten way to go down. Why does this lesson need repeating every decade or so?
May we reasonably believe, however, that Scooter Libby enjoys the same autonomy and authority in the Vice President's Office?
Perjury is a rotten way to go down. Why does this lesson need repeating every decade or so?
posted by JRB at 12:22 PM
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While I believe that a lot happens in the White House without George W. Bush knowing I do not believe that Dick Cheney is similarly in the dark. Perhaps it is my personal dislike of the man but I think Cheney knew full well what was going on with the leak.
The indictment makes a quiet "unindicted co-conspirator" nod to "another person in the Office of the Vice President."
I saw this clip of Helen Thomas on Bill Mahr's show the other night where Mahr reminded her that TWO YEARS ago, she asked in a press conference if the easiest thing for the president to do was to invite his entire staff into the Oval Office and ask, "Who leaked this?" She said that she never got a good answer to the question.
I think "Official A" is either Cheney or Rove. But I still can't figure out why they did it.
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