Posted on 06/02/2004 3:48:03 PM PDT by RWR8189
Edited on 06/02/2004 3:57:11 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
BUSH CONTACTS OUTSIDE ATTORNEY IN LEAK CASE: ABC News' Kate Snow reports that President Bush has contacted an outside attorney in case over leak of name of CIA operative Valerie Plume, wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson...
You don't use government lawyers to defend yourself in any case like this. It is SOP to get a private lawyer.
David Kendall was Clinton's private lawyer. It may or may not be a big deal, but if there is an active investigation, President Bush needs a private lawyer.
Contacting an attorney is quite different than hiring one to represent you. I have to guess that the headline is scarier than the full story.
And none of us should trust those bastards at ABC.
OK, ok, ok. Settle down. Think about it. If the White House is under investigation, the WH counsel may also be a target of the investigation. He decided to get outside advice.
sounds hugh!
Wow.....look at this brainiac!
gristy (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-02-04 06:43 PM
Response to Reply #27
31. He is representing bush
A friggin sitting pResident, hiring a friggin lawyer. Sweet.
Must be you know who. :-)
"Why do I have the sickening feeling that this might be the thing that gives us President Kerry?"
Because you have no faith.
I Agree .. there is a big different
I can't stick around .. my youngest just ran out the door to play with friends .. grrr
BBL
Could Dick Cheney be needing to spend more time with his family? Can you say, "Rudy?"
STOP IT!!!! Just get ahold of yerself, yer scarin' me. Anyway, I don't think this would give us a President Kerry. I think, if she smells blood in the water, well, youknowtherest.
Well, at least I hope.....now the medieval media (another freeper coined THAT great phrase) will PICK this Scab until it BLEEDS on the front pages for weeks....but, hmmm...what else MIGHT it be replacing?
Why don't you try not to panic every time there's a bad headline.
You'll be dead by July 4th.
Can we please rename FreeRepublic to "Alarmist.com". Give me a break. This isn't even a story yet and people are predicting Kerry just got elected. Call me crazy, but I think I'll wait to read "the rest of the story".
I hope we're not headed that way. I really, really do.
We're doomed. DOOMED!!
I seriously doubt that Bush himself leaked anything to Novak. The White House may have an outside attorney working on legal research related to this issue, and Bush may have spoken to this attorney once. Therefore he has "contacted" this attorney and ABC News will attempt to blow this up into propaganda they can use against Bush & Cheney. Same old stuff from the liberal media....a tempest in a teapot.
Treat this news like the bullsh-t hype it is and you'll be fine.
WASHINGTON - President Bush has consulted an outside lawyer in case he needs to retain him in the grand jury investigation of who leaked the name of a covert CIA operative last year, the White House said Wednesday.
There was no indication that was a target of the leak investigation, but the president has decided that "in the event that he needs his advice," he would retain him," White House deputy Claire Buchan.
The attorney is Jim Sharp, she said, confirmed a report by CBS News.
"The president has said that everyone should cooperate in this matter and that would include himself," Buchan said.
She deflected questions about whether Bush had been asked to appear before a grand jury in the case.
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