Reply #10: It's White House lawyers. Here's why it's confusing ....

[Zen Democrat]

Gonzalez said he asked White House lawyers if this could be delayed til morning. The "White House lawyers" called the "Department of Justice lawyers", asked them about this, and the Dept. of Justice lawyers said it would be okay to wait until morning.

However, I'm sure the Justice Dept. did not tell the WH lawyers that it would be okay to alert the Chief of Staff 12 hours in advance of implementing the order.

I think Gonzalez is hanging out all over on this. Telling Card was a no--no. Now the question becomes, "Who did Card tell?"

Ultimately the question, the big question, is "What did the president know, and when did he know it?" Bush was on Air Force One when Powell had the memo. Maybe the only person Powell told about the memo was none other than George W. Bush. Maybe Powell has testified to that. Ari Fleischer wouldn't have contacted Rove and Libby from Air Force One to disclose the memo's contents unless he was told to do so. Who would have told Ari to do that? I can think of only one person who would have done that -- yep, Dipshit himself.