GOP Worried Attacks On Bush's Integrity Will Take Their Toll... | The Huffington Post

That old "integrity dog" just won't hunt, anymore.

It never should have, but then the Bushites are good at one thing: creating all kinds of illusions and slights of hand.

They all belong in prison and that is the truth of the matter.

GOP Worried Attacks On Bush's Integrity Will Take Their Toll... The Huffington Post:

"George W. Bush likes to be seen as a man who dwells above the pettiness of political warfare. He has said he doesn't read the newspapers and shrugs off media criticism as carping of the chattering classes. Especially since 9/11, he has said that he looks to a higher power for guidance. He once threatened to stop sharing information with Capitol Hill if lawmakers didn't put a stop to leaking. 'There are too many leaks of classified information,' he told reporters in September 2003, 'and if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.'

Last week a video clip of Bush making that statement became cable-TV wallpaper. Bush, it appeared, was not above the old leaking game after all. The president who, as a younger man, once played the role of loyalty enforcer in his father's White House had not forgotten how to play hardball. According to a filing from the prosecutor in the Valerie Plame leak investigation, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, who has been indicted for lying in the case, told a grand jury that President Bush specifically authorized him to leak from an intelligence document on WMD in Iraq. The leak, according to Libby's testimony, was intended to rebut the allegations of an administration critic, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was disputing administration claims that Saddam Hussein's Iraq had been trying to buy uranium from the African country of Niger"