jim rozen wrote in message ...

This can't go on indefinitely. The administration screwed
Plame because her husband squealed. Next chance it gets,
the CIA takes the opportunity to give some back, and blurts
out the fact that audio recordings of that meeting exist.

It doesn't have to go on indefinitely, if some of these are not sorted
out, there is a good chance that the damage will be done before the
facts are really known, if they ever are. Chances of what's on those
tapes being known by the public are exactly zero, nada, zilch. The
same old crap will continue, if it's going to be damaging to the
president, and it doesn't matter which side he comes from, suddenly
"national security" would be put at risk if it became public
knowledge. My thoughts on the matter, if it's going to be damaging to
the president, it SHOULD be public knowledge. For an analogy, when
one decides to run for that office, his life should become a glass
house, and the windows should be top quality optical glass. If
someone wants to "lead" the country, every act he does should be open
to public scrutiny, and with high power glasses examining every breath
he takes. His life before running should be examined closely, and
from every possible direction. If there's a mark against him, it
should be known BEFORE he's elected or allowed to run. A candidate
should not be allowed to seal his military, civil, criminal or any
other record from being examined closely by the people he's trying to
convince. If something will be damaging to the president if it were
known, that should be the lowest priority, or not even on the list.
Far more important that the people he wants to "lead" know where he's
leading us from, and where he wants to lead us to. So far, all I've
seen is a lack of a direction he wants us to go in, no clear cut
vision with a goal, and no means of accomplishing anything that is to
the benefit of the rest of us.

If it turns out that georgie girl lied to the country in his reasons
for invading Iraq, he has disgraced not only himself, but the entire
country in the process. His reasons become only excuses, and very
weak ones at that.