Democrats seized on the news to criticize the president.
"It speaks for itself that the president initially claimed he wanted to get to the bottom of this, but now he's suddenly retained a lawyer," said Jano Cabrera, spokesman for the Democratic National Committee (news - web sites). "Bush shouldn't drag the country through grand juries and legal maneuvering. President Bush should come forward with what he knows and come clean with the American people."
I know you relish being obtuse.
Please try to see the political side to this.
POTUS is not liked by much of our media.
Bush is not cooperating with "THEM"=the media,
but with an investigative grand jury.
It is the media, however, that wishes to paint
Bush negatively for their own political agenda:
"make Bush a one term POTUS."