Arlen Specter was on FOX News this morning and had some interesting things to say regarding the leak case. The following is from Forbes:
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should speak publicly about their involvement in the CIA leak case so people can understand what happened, a leading Republican senator said Sunday.
“We ought to get to the bottom of it so it can be evaluated by the American people,” said Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“There’s been enough of a showing that the president of the United States owes a specific explanation to the American people … about exactly what he did,” Specter said.
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“I think it is necessary for the president and vice president to tell the American people exactly what happened,” Specter told “Fox News Sunday.”
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“There has to be a detailed explanation as to precisely what Vice President Cheney did, what the president said to him and an explanation by the president as to what he said,” Specter said.
It is becoming more clear that Bush is afraid to come come clean on the leak because it was motivated purely for political purposes. The simple fact that they would only release things that supported the war while hiding the overwhelming amounts of information that showed the war was not necessary proves this.
The President can declassify information but why in the hell did he not just come out and say this? We have gone through a three year investigation and now Scooter Libby is even on trial because of Bush’s lies and dirty politics.
Something else to consider is what kind of message this now gives to our current CIA agents in the field. How do they feel knowing that the President can out them just because he wants to get back at someone who disagrees with him? There lives are now in a far greater danger now because we have a pussy chickenhawk sitting in the White House who does not give a damn about national security. His only concern is himself.