After watching Katie Couric’s recent interview on “60 Minutes” with Valerie Plame, I feel compelled to comment on yet another breach of honesty by George Bush.
Plame was a CIA operative when she was “outed” by the Bush White House.
The date of her outing was July 14, 2003, and at that time Plame was working on a top priority for the White House, the result of a call from Vice President Dick Cheney’s staffers.
After her CIA identity was revealed, President Bush stated that if anyone in his administration outed a CIA operative, he would take appropriate action in dealing with that informant.
Subsequently, Scooter Libby was convicted of lying to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. A grand jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced.
When President Bush received the news of Scooter Libby’s conviction, he took the appropriate action. Bush almost immediately nullified Libby’s conviction by commuting his sentence.
That lie by George W. Bush, combined with all the other lies perpetrated on the American public, casts him as the most unethical and least trustworthy president to ever occupy the White House.
President Clinton was impeached by the House, but Bill Clinton never revealed the identity of a CIA agent. That dishonor belongs to George W. Bush and George W. Bush alone.
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