Tony Snow appears to have lied about the genesis of the idea to fire all 93 United States Attorneys at the beginning of Bush's second term.
New unreleased e-mails from top administration officials show that the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys was raised by White House adviser Karl Rove in early January 2005, indicating Rove was more involved in the plan than the White House previously acknowledged.Regular readers of this blog (yes, that means you, Betmo and whoever-you-are in Chapel Hill, NC) will be familiar with our theorem that the Bush administration's first answer to any question can and should be presumed untrue. Almost without exception, a Bush administration official will respond to any question with a deflection, an evasion, an obfuscation, or an outright lie.
The e-mails also show that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales discussed the idea of firing the attorneys en masse weeks before he was confirmed as attorney general.
The e-mails directly contradict White House assertions that the notion originated with recently departed White House counsel Harriet Miers, and was her idea alone.
In this case, perhaps especially in this case, every answer they give should be viewed in this light.
1 comments:
well, now that you mention it- i don't believe any words that come out of anyone's mouth from the executive branch- and much of the legislative. i just assume that whatever they do has an agenda that they won't share with anyone and that they lie everytime they get in front of the microphone. i have been pretty accurate in that assumption too :) and i find your blog a guilty pleasure- so don't change anything!
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