Reply #63: Not Necessarily

[Me.]

A long standing, unspoken, WH rule, is that you keep the president out of dicey matters. I think Cheney took it upon himself. I would wonder exactly why he told the president they needed to leak portions of the NIE. I think I read somewhere that * was told that it needed to be done to combat the critics, but what I don't think he was told was the extent to which Cheney would use it. Cheney has been a law unto himself, and I don't think even * could stop him, if he wanted to. Cheney continues to tell the same lies that * has had to disavow.

It is also a point made over and over, that Rove, *'s closest adviser didn't know the extent of the culpability for what the OVP planned and did.

And, * is the most clueless president we've ever had and he doesn't know what he doesn't want to know.