Bush and His Old-Timey Love for the Ironic.
According to TPM Muckraker's Kate Klonick, President Bush is claiming executive privilege in not releasing FBI documents relating to Valerie Plame's outing as a covert spy.
In other words, he's using his executive privilege to HIDE. After using the same privileges to OUT A SPY, a spy who was working to provide our intelligence community with information regarding terrorists. The variety our president was warned about prior to the September 11th attack.
And subsequently ignored.
Yay! Record oil prices! Yay! Endless, pointless war! Yay! Mission Accomplished! Yay! Commander Codpiece!
Yay! Republicans!
yay.
I'm disgusted at this abuse of executive privilege for CYA reasons. And I'm also wondering, how are we supposed to make a case against him and his crimes when a goodly chunk of the White House emails are "lost" or erased?
There are gonna be a lot more of these "That A*hole George Bush" posts in the coming months, as he leaves us with fresh crap to clean up before his time's up in office. And I'm dreading it. Never before have I *wanted* him to vacation in Crawford so urgently.
Posted by: cynematic | July 17, 2008 at 10:37 AM