The media have been his patsy for years. They are just starting to wake up. You have to give the Administration credit, though. They really knew how to manipulate and intimidate the media.
Hey, they are so many scandals coming out of Washington right now I can't keep up. Congressional oversight under Democratic control has totally changed the picture.
Bush now only "hopes" Gonzales will not resign. Translation: He's a goner. They're concentrating on saving Rove instead.
Subpoenas are flying in the Justice Department over the firing of good, qualified Federal Prosecutors fired by the White House for purely political reasons. Justice is supposed to be above politics. Now their cover stories keep changing as more and more embarrassing documents are revealed. Apparently the Justice Department is in a panic.
Turns out Fitzgerald was on their possible hit list, even as he was presiding over the Libby leak investigation. Gonzales' chief of staff labeled Fitzgerald as among those prosecutes who had "not distinguished themselves". Translation: Fire him. However Ashcroft had previously given him the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service in 2002, and Fitzgerald is considered the best Federal Prosecutor in the country.
Former CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband are going after Rove and Cheney in civil court for outing her as punishment for her husband's revealing that Iraq wasn't trying to build a bomb - one of the lies Cheney created to start the Iraq war.
Evidence is coming out showing how the White House manipulated global warming evidence to play down the human role and protect its interests in the oil industry.
A scandal is breaking about White House links to arch-homophobes and holocost-revisionists.
What a difference an election makes!
AI
