dts: Since when do we worry about spies who use diplomatic immunity as a cover.Let us pray that the White House does follow your advice and ignore the leak of a CIA operative's name, using your questionable logic. She is an American working for the CIA. If you would think this through, you would know that every field agent we have would pack his or her bags if they knew that the White House would reveal their names by leaking them to a reporter.
dts: Just another case of the demos crying about milk they have orginally spilt.The only problem with your argument is that it is not Democrats who are making the accusations but administration officials who are running scared. Your reaction is exactly how Nixon and Clinton White Houses reacted and we know what the country went through afterwards. The president has had two months to get to the bottom of this. Imagine how he could have turned around his dropping poll numbers if he had shown leadership, discovered who the leakers were, and offered them up for prosecution. Remember, it was Bush and Rumsfeld who condemned leakers, blaming that all on Democrats. Dismissing such a serious leak now wouold make them look like liars and fools.
You may not be old enough to remember what President Reagan did when it became obvious that his White House aides were deeply involved with trading arms for hostages in 1986 in the Iran-Contra affair after Reagan swore to the world that his government would never do that. Reagan nipped the controversy in the bud by going on TV, admitting mistakes, launching an internal investigation and promising to cooperate with investigators. His critics were cut off at the knees. That is the model for President Bush to follow. If he decides instead to stall and send out his flacks to deny the charges, claim executive privelege or "let's wait until the DOJ investigation is all over," then he is playing into the hands of those who oppose him.
I truly hope that the president and his closest advisers do not follow your lead.
--Raoul
Why should I believe anything they say any more, especially when it concerns this adminstration?
Follow the track record.