capitolhillblue: Card told * White House 'Hip-Deep' in Plame Scandal

[shockingelk]

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7564.shtml

... Chief of Staff Andrew Card cancelled a weekend schedule of appearances and events to spend the weekend with Bush at Camp David and deliver the bad news personally, White House insiders tell Capitol Hill Blue.

... "We’re hip deep in this and the sharks are circling,” Card told the President.

... According to multiple White House sources, Card laid out a detailed scenario of White House involvement in a staff-directed campaign to destroy administration critic Wilson. That scenario includes:

- A concentrated effort directed by Libby to monitor Wilson’s travel, speeches and activities and develop talking points to attack his credibility and plant false stories about the Ambassador’s activities, statements and motives. Libby’s plan included “outing” Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, a covert CIA operative. Card told Bush he believes Vice President Cheney was aware of Libby's activities.

- Approval of the program by Rove who helped spread the information to “administration-friendly” reporters, including conservative columnist Robert Novak and New York Times reporter Judith Miller who has since publicly admitted helping spread false administration-based information claiming the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a claim now discredited.

- Attempts by White House personnel to cover up administration involvement in the Plame affair, including Rove-directed public statements by press spokesman Scott McClellan claiming “no White House official is involved” in the leaking of Plame’s name.

[rodeodance]

1. i am leary of articles from this website (although wish it was true).

[MADem]

7. Doug Thompson used to be a Republican

He was a GOP staffer on the Hill during Ray Gun. He knows EVERYONE in DC, all the career civil servants, all of those young staffers who have moved up the chain over the last twenty some odd years. The guys who were lined up at the xeroxer with him are now in very senior roles.

The war is what flipped him, I think.

[bigbrother05]

2. Hip deep I don't think so

they're in over their heads.

[Lindsay]

3. Further proof they don't know their heads

from their butts.

[ClintonTyree]

4. Bullshit.......

like bush has no knowledge of what's going on and is just being brought up to speed now. :eyes: bush has been hip deep in this thing from day one.
They're going to the mattresses at Camp David huh? I can hear bush now, in his best (worst) James Cagney voice, "you'll never take me alive, copper"!

[OneNation]

5. In the same vein

can't you here Bush yelling, "TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!!!!!!!!!".

[SpiralHawk]

6. You nailed it, Governor.

If Bush knew about all this BS, as any competent executive should have, and did nothing, he should be canned. Immediately.

And if he did not know about it previously, he is totally incompetent and out of the loop, and should be canned. Immediately.

[MADem]

8. Well, he does not read the paper, and gets all his news from FAUX!

That's his story and he's sticking to it!

[acmejack]

9. Pair of pretty good options, IMHO!

Pick one, *, we don't really care which...