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Bush: If Crime Committed, Staffer Will Go
Foxnews.com ^ | 19 July 2005

Posted on 07/18/2005 6:11:17 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

WASHINGTON — President Bush reiterated Monday that if someone in his administration broke the law by talking to reporters about Joseph Wilson's wife, then they would lose their jobs.

"If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration," Bush told reporters during a brief news conference with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Bush spoke as media scrutiny continues to focus on what Karl Rove, deputy chief of staff at the White House, told reporters about former ambassador Wilson's wife two years ago when it was first disclosed that Valerie Plame was a CIA operative.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cialeak; dubya; leaks; rove
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1 posted on 07/18/2005 6:11:18 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher

I guess Valery Plame can say goodbye to her job.


2 posted on 07/18/2005 6:13:11 PM PDT by SmithL (There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
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To: Aussie Dasher

when is Plame going to be arrested for subversion and treason?


3 posted on 07/18/2005 6:14:13 PM PDT by Nat Turner (DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Stinking, rotten, loser libs.
That says it all.


4 posted on 07/18/2005 6:14:16 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Aussie Dasher
"Interesting" ways of "reporting" the same story. Note headlines regarding Pres. Bush's news conference today.

FOX NEWS: Bush: If Crime Committed, Staffer Will Go

IMPEACH BUSH NETWORK - MSNBC President appears to qualify standard for firing in CIA-leak case

5 posted on 07/18/2005 6:16:45 PM PDT by PilloryHillary (Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
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To: SmithL
I guess Valery Plame can say goodbye to her job.

I can't believe she's still at the CIA with her poor judgement.

6 posted on 07/18/2005 6:18:57 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: PilloryHillary

PilloryHillary, does anyone have the original Bush quote on this issue. I have been looking for it and haven't found it. This is a paraphrase.


7 posted on 07/18/2005 6:19:49 PM PDT by Bahbah (Something wicked this way comes)
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To: PilloryHillary

Michael Isikoff has finally surfaced from his embarrassment over the Newsweek story that got lots of Mulims killed, about the Koran (bogus story)

What gets this creep to surface? Why the Plame/Wilson/Rove story in Newsweek..

He is on Hannity and Colmes saying he KNOWS that the SP in this case has a case and it is federal laws that have been broken....he is POSITIVE.

So, I guess like the Koran in the toilet, Isikoff is the ONLY one in the world that knows for SURE that Rove has committed federal crimes!


8 posted on 07/18/2005 6:20:55 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Mark Levin for Supreme Court Justice)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Rove immediately called security after the reporters phone calls about Plame. That was a good move on his part. He just passed it on that someone was trying to break the law, but it doesn't make him a partner in the crime. Smart move.
9 posted on 07/18/2005 6:25:04 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("A people without a heritage are easily persuaded (deceived)" - Karl Marx)
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"it depends on what the definition of 'is' is."

The scumbags will claim to believe this means a parking ticket. I can already hear pelosi calling W a liar!

10 posted on 07/18/2005 6:25:08 PM PDT by Tacis ("Democrats - The Party of Traitors, Treachery and Treason!")
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To: Nat Turner
when is Plame going to be arrested for subversion and treason?

It's plausible. Her and her husband were a team. My guess is their loyalties were not to the U.S.

11 posted on 07/18/2005 6:27:16 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("A people without a heritage are easily persuaded (deceived)" - Karl Marx)
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To: Txsleuth

Isikoff is a total Clymer. I still wonder if Isokoff was used by the Clintons to break the Monica story to take the heat off of Chinagate? Something about Isikoff has bugged me for a long time. The Monica deal was too pat not to mention Wag the Dog had a girl in a barret on the rope line -- another too convenient happening.


12 posted on 07/18/2005 6:28:48 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- J.C. for OK Governor in '06; Allen/Watts in 2008)
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To: Echo Talon
I can't believe she's still at the CIA with her poor judgement.

Another FReeper on another thread said she was in France "vacationing" right now.
I can't prove that, though. It was just on a post I read.

13 posted on 07/18/2005 6:30:01 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("A people without a heritage are easily persuaded (deceived)" - Karl Marx)
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not sure.. maybe someone is frog marchin' her...


14 posted on 07/18/2005 6:31:04 PM PDT by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
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To: Bahbah
does anyone have the original Bush quote on this issue.

"If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is and if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of," he said in September 2003.

This compares to the story on Reuters and the one I've heard on radio broadcasts all day:

President Bush vowed on Monday to fire anyone found by a federal probe to have acted illegally in the exposure of a CIA agent, in a shift from a broader pledge to dismiss anyone found to have leaked information in the case.

What a crock!

15 posted on 07/18/2005 6:32:55 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: PhiKapMom

<< Wag the Dog had a girl in a barret on the rope line >>

Not quite catching this comment.


16 posted on 07/18/2005 6:34:32 PM PDT by cantweall
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To: Echo Talon
The grand jury investigation is suppose to end in October? We should be working on defeating democrats right now. This is gong to be a long wait. We could be being more productive.

Let's hope the investigation is about Plame and Wilson, because it would be a cool "October surprise" thing for the 2006 election.

17 posted on 07/18/2005 6:37:29 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("A people without a heritage are easily persuaded (deceived)" - Karl Marx)
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To: DeFault User

no kidding - if leaking were a crime, a lot of pols would be locked up. now leaking classified info is another story. i don't think it's THAT hard a distinction to draw and understand, except for the MSM.


18 posted on 07/18/2005 6:40:16 PM PDT by avital2
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To: DeFault User
Wouldn't it be something if W would go on the tube with a question and answer conference and let the bastard reporters continue to twists his words, THAN all of a sudden W pulls out a tape recording of what he ACTUALLY said in both news conferences concerning that specific quote...""If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is and if the person has violated the law, the person will be taken care of," he said in September 2003." ...played for the American folk so that they can see how scummy these bastards are!! OH GLORY DAY!!
19 posted on 07/18/2005 6:43:50 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Aussie Dasher

President Bush in a news conference with the Prime Minister of India -- during a time of war and major geopolitcal challenges and realignment -- and the micro-cephalic media brings up this fabricated non-story. More proof that Leftists are incurably insane and present an extreme danger to the world.


20 posted on 07/18/2005 6:44:57 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Mark Levin and Ann Coulter for SCOTUS!)
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