Smoking Gun? Pundit Says Bush Part of Illegal PlameGate Leak

This morning on ABC's This Week, host George Stephanopoulos said.....

"Definitely a political problem but I wonder, George Will, do you think it’s a manageable one for the White House especially if we don’t know whether Fitzgerald is going to write a report or have indictments but if he is able to show as a source close to this told me this week, that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actually involved in some of these discussions."

(See video of Stephanopoulos comments here at Crooks and Liars blog.)

Blog Think Progress speculates, "This would explain why Bush spent more than an hour answering questions from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. It would also fundamentally change the dynamics of the scandal. President Bush could no longer claim he was merely a bystander who wants to 'get to the bottom of it.' As Stephanopoulos notes, if Bush played a direct role it could make this scandal completely unmanageable."

Unmanageable? Try illegal.

And perhaps impeachable.
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