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Interestinger and Interestinger

Posted by Paul in: Political issues, The Plame Affair

Here’s an interesting theory — one that ascribes to Bush the same expectation Libby had: Reporters are going to protect them:

Second, on October 7, 2003, Bush answered a journalist’s question about the leak by stating, “how many sources have you had that’s leaked information that you’ve exposed or have been exposed? Probably none.” A week later, on October 14, 2003, Libby met with FBI investigators and told them a false story about how he first learned of Plame’s identity from reporters. In a case which would later hinge upon the accounts of reporters who as Fitzgerald described were “eyewitness[es] to the crime” it is interesting that Bush would suggest the journalists’ historical disinclination for revealing sources. To drive home his point, Bush said to the journalists, “you do a very good job of protecting the leakers.” Was he not-so-subtly suggesting that they continue doing a “very good job”?



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