Right wingers always look at us like we are crazy when we talk about the flat out lies the White House tells. Well here is they are actually the ones who deserve the crazy look.
Think Progress has a video up of last night’s Countdown. During yesterday’s White House briefing, Dana Perino told reporters this in regards to Cheney exempting himself from the law:
PERINO: If you look on page 18 of the EO, when you have a chance, there’s a distinction regarding the Vice President versus what is an agency. And the President also, as the author of an EO, and the person responsible for interpreting the EO, did not intend for the Vice President to be treated as an agency, and that’s clear.
Sure – that makes it all better. Doesn’t it?
But wait! Keith Olbermann didn’t buy it and the people at MSNBC looked into this further:
OLBERMANN: No exemption at all for the Vice President on page 18. So we emailed the White House, which referred us to section 1.3 — which is about something else altogether — and 5.2 — which makes no mention of the Vice President. In fact, there is no exemption for the President or the Vice President when it comes to reporting on classified material.
So again we have a White House flat out lying to the American people. True what do we expect from Dana Perino. It was her husband who thought he was above the law and landed himself in the slammer. Just another part of the Bush crime family.