Leaks

So Karl Rove leaked the name of a CIA operative. That’s a federal crime, and a serious one.

The White House denied knowing about this, which is now an obvious lie.

The president said he would fire the leaker. He has not.

Considering how bent out of shape some people got when Clinton lied about having sex in the White House — something that put no one’s life in danger, and didn’t affect national policy — you would think they’d have an even stronger reaction to this.

Yet not a peep: According to the Associated Press, “White House press secretary Scott McClellan refused to discuss the matter at two news briefings Monday. He said he would not comment because the leak is the focus of a federal criminal investigation.”

BTW, I took similar glee in watching Clinton squirm and lie on the stand when questioned. Ditto for Bill Gates during the Microsoft anti-trust hearings. :)

Update:
Just saw this, from today’s afternoon White House press briefing.

A reporter asked White House press secretary Scott McClellan:

Scott, if I could point out: Contradictory to that statement, on September 29th of 2003, while the investigation was ongoing, you clearly commented on it. You were the first one to have said that if anybody from the White House was involved, they would be fired.

And then, on June 10th of 2004, at Sea Island Plantation, in the midst of this investigation, when the president made his comments that, yes, he would fire anybody from the White House who was involved, so why have you commented on this during the process of the investigation in the past, but now you�ve suddenly drawn a curtain around it under the statement of, We�re not going to comment on an ongoing investigation?