Actually, I haven't seen where he did that; that looks like an assumption on Newsmax's part.
However, by continuing to talk about what hasn't been heard, he's ginning up the "demand" that they all be released; and Bush might object to that.
Can you hear the HOWLS from the MSM.
I'm just saying that's how his comments struck me when I read the WaPo this morning.
As to the appropriateness of NewsMax "reporting" what is really only speculation...it isn't good journalism. But I just went back and read their rationale for thinking that's what he's saying and I think they have a point. Actually, I rescind my "isn't good journalism", because in this article they juxtapose some of his contradictory statements plus his (imo) arch hints about the 90% that haven't been played.
Yes, I do think Weasel Wead is ginning up demand for the rest to be released.
and then the following:
Both Wead and the White House said Wead and Bush have not talked in several years. Asked whether he had recorded anyone else, Wead said, "I don't want to go there at all. I am hoping I can legally get rid of some of these." He said he made the tapes in Texas, where it is legal to record telephone conversations as long as one party is aware of it. Wead now lives in Haymarket, Va.
Nonetheless, Bush continued to call Wead from the road, Wead told The Post in 1999 and 2000. Wead said at the time that he was making notes of Bush's conversations, but did not mention to The Post that he was also taping them.
Some of the tapes may not be forth coming due to fact the the President was on the road campaigning and thus some of the calls may have originated in states where all parties must give consent for taping....
This might be a little attempted payback for Andy Card telling him to 'leave the adminstration sooner rather than later' back in 1990. reckon?