Another brutal day at the office for Scottie....

[Starfury]

(...)

Q Does the President equate the word "leaking" to a crime, as best you know, in his mind? Just the use of the word "leaking," does he see that as a criminal standard? And is the only threshold for firing someone involved being charged with a crime?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, we all serve at the pleasure of the President in this White House. The President -- you heard what he had to say on the matter. He was asked a specific question, and you heard his response.

Q Is leaking, in your judgment of his interpretation, a crime?

MR. McCLELLAN: I'll leave it at what the President said.

Go ahead.

Q What is his problem? Two years, and he can't call Rove in and find out what the hell is going on? I mean, why is it so difficult to find out the facts? It costs thousands, millions of dollars, two years, it tied up how many lawyers? All he's got to do is call him in.

MR. McCLELLAN: You just heard from the President. He said he doesn't know all the facts. I don't know all the facts.

Q Why?

MR. McCLELLAN: We want to know what the facts are. Because --

Q Why doesn't he ask him?

MR. McCLELLAN: I'll tell you why, because there's an investigation that is continuing at this point, and the appropriate people to handle these issues are the ones who are overseeing that investigation. There is a special prosecutor that has been appointed. And it's important that we let all the facts come out. And then at that point, we'll be glad to talk about it, but we shouldn't be getting into --

Q You talked about it to reporters.

MR. McCLELLAN: We shouldn't be getting into prejudging the outcome.

Go ahead.

Q Scott, we don't know all the facts, but we know some of the facts. For example, Matt Cooper says he did speak to Karl Rove and Lewis Libby about these issues. So given the fact that you have previously stood at that podium and said these men did not discuss Valerie Plame or a CIA agent's identity in any way, does the White House have a credibility problem?

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050718-2.html

More admiration for Helen Thomas!

[punpirate]

1. What reporters should be digging out...

... now is the slip signed by Bush authorizing Snotty to receive combat pay. :P

[opihimoimoi]

3. He gets Big Bucks to stonewall /deflect/decieve/Babble, and take the heat.

He too is a whore....

[Spinzonner]

2. "all previous statements are inoperative"

Maybe we should just call Scottie by his alter ego name, Ron

[MajorFlaw]

4. "does the White House have a credibility problem?"

Yup.



:nopity:

[Skittles]

5. roasted like a chestnut, according to BuzzFlash

LOL

[Swamp Rat]

6. Boiled like a toad!

:D

[Tennessee Gal]

7. What's up with this Les person?

Go ahead, Les.

Q Scott, Jack Kelly of The Pittsburgh Post Gazette notes that the Intelligence Identities Protection Act defines a covert agent as someone working undercover overseas. He notes Valerie Plame has manned a desk at the CIA headquarters since 1997, while Mark Stein of the Chicago Sun Times notes that Valerie's husband conceded on CNN that she is not a clandestine officer and hasn't been one for six years, so leaking her CIA connection did not endanger her life or comprise her mission.

And my question -- I have a follow up -- would you or the President or Karl Rove disagree with these two nationally syndicated columnists?

Liar, liar, pants on fire!

Valerie's husband conceded no such thing!

In fact, Wilson merely emphasized that his wife's cover was blown at the moment Novak revealed her identity in a July 2003 column.

[Lecky]

8. He's crazy

I'm serious, he's really insane.

[ObaMania]

9. Nope, sorry but...

.. it's not brutal when at the end of the press briefing some asshole says "but on a personal not, Scott.. how're you holding up?"

They have to be relentless and not feel sorry for that fuck stick piece of shit. He's a liar plain and simple. Would you feel compassion for a serial liar when he feeds you bullshit every single day?