What Did Bush Really Mean When He Said Any Leaker In His Administration Would Be Taken Care Of?
Timothy Sexton
July 06, 2007
Remember how The Decider firmly stood up and said he would take action when the Berlin Wall set up inside the White House to keep truth from escaping developed a crack just large enough for a tiny bit of reality to seep through and reveal that someone in the White House had been the source of the leak in the Valerie Plame case? Just in case you can't get your mind to wade through the plethora of other lies attributed to Pres. Bush, I’ll help you out. Bush’s exact words were: “If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of."
Well, George W. Bush got what he wanted. He found out who the person was in his administration who leaked the information that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent to that Republican propagandist masquerading as a journalist, Robert Novak. And he also found out that, at least in the eyes of the group of Americans who made up a jury, that Scooter Libby violated the saw. And, finally, he did take care of that person.
Oh, how he took care of that leaker.
Would that Pres. Bush has as much dedication to taking care of the rest of America that he has to taking care of Scooter Libby. Scooter—and, honestly, if you are an adult male would you have balls big enough to go out in public and have people address you as Scooter; I mean you’ve got to give credit where credit is due, Lewis Libby honestly doesn’t care how big of a dork he appears to be in the eyes of the average person, he is committed to retaining the kind of nickname that the average kid puts away right around the time he enters middle school is only so he won’t get beaten up every day—is the beneficiary of the kind of benevolent concern that we all expect from our President. It is our grave misfortune that most of us aren’t rich enough or well-connected enough, or the boyfriend of Dick Cheney—not to mention having authored the atrociously ill-conceived plans for a foreign policy mission that Bush almost immediately put into action and that has left this country both financially and morally bankrupt and has been responsible for the unnecessary deaths of 3500 Americans with untold thousands more to come.
It is difficult to be sure that when Pres. Bush said that the person responsible for the leak in the Valerie Plame case would be taken care of that he meant that regardless of whether he was found guilty by a jury of his peers or not the person wouldn’t even be punished as much as Paris Hilton, but I think it’s safe to assume that it was swimming around in the back of that syphilitic spongy material that passes for George W. Bush’s mind. The real assumption that must be made here is whether nor not there was ever any conversation that took place between George, Scooter and their boss Dick Cheney on the subject of what might happen if they were caught. Obviously, these guys have never been particularly focused on the idea of getting caught doing anything wrong. Their gameplan has always been remains to bring up their all-purpose butt-coverage: Executive privilege. But in a case where even these assholes were smart enough to know that the potential for jail time existed if they engaged in this impeachable offense, you have to think a discussion must have taken place in which Bush said, “Don’t worry, Scat-Boy—I mean, Scooter—if anyone ever finds out there was a leak in my administration and it was determined that that person broke the law, I’ll take care of that person.”
Well, George W. Bush got what he wanted. He found out who the person was in his administration who leaked the information that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent to that Republican propagandist masquerading as a journalist, Robert Novak. And he also found out that, at least in the eyes of the group of Americans who made up a jury, that Scooter Libby violated the saw. And, finally, he did take care of that person.
Oh, how he took care of that leaker.
Would that Pres. Bush has as much dedication to taking care of the rest of America that he has to taking care of Scooter Libby. Scooter—and, honestly, if you are an adult male would you have balls big enough to go out in public and have people address you as Scooter; I mean you’ve got to give credit where credit is due, Lewis Libby honestly doesn’t care how big of a dork he appears to be in the eyes of the average person, he is committed to retaining the kind of nickname that the average kid puts away right around the time he enters middle school is only so he won’t get beaten up every day—is the beneficiary of the kind of benevolent concern that we all expect from our President. It is our grave misfortune that most of us aren’t rich enough or well-connected enough, or the boyfriend of Dick Cheney—not to mention having authored the atrociously ill-conceived plans for a foreign policy mission that Bush almost immediately put into action and that has left this country both financially and morally bankrupt and has been responsible for the unnecessary deaths of 3500 Americans with untold thousands more to come.
It is difficult to be sure that when Pres. Bush said that the person responsible for the leak in the Valerie Plame case would be taken care of that he meant that regardless of whether he was found guilty by a jury of his peers or not the person wouldn’t even be punished as much as Paris Hilton, but I think it’s safe to assume that it was swimming around in the back of that syphilitic spongy material that passes for George W. Bush’s mind. The real assumption that must be made here is whether nor not there was ever any conversation that took place between George, Scooter and their boss Dick Cheney on the subject of what might happen if they were caught. Obviously, these guys have never been particularly focused on the idea of getting caught doing anything wrong. Their gameplan has always been remains to bring up their all-purpose butt-coverage: Executive privilege. But in a case where even these assholes were smart enough to know that the potential for jail time existed if they engaged in this impeachable offense, you have to think a discussion must have taken place in which Bush said, “Don’t worry, Scat-Boy—I mean, Scooter—if anyone ever finds out there was a leak in my administration and it was determined that that person broke the law, I’ll take care of that person.”