Joe Silent on Bush leaks

by: sufi

Sat Apr 08, 2006 at 10:06:34 AM EDT

News of President Bush authorizing leaks of intelligence reports to discredit critics of the Iraq war broke before noon Thursday. Democrats quickly lined up to demand a public accounting.

Conspicuous in his silence was Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., the politician analysts say could have benefited most by speaking out.

For someone who was raging against Clinton for lying about sex, he seems awfully quiet about a president illegally authorizing the identity leak of a CIA agent.  What does Bush Sr. have to say about leakers? Read http://thebluestate.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/10/wednesday_edito.html

we already know what George H.W. Bush, our 41st President, thinks of those who betray CIA officers.  In a 1999 speech before the CIA, an agency he used to run, Bush Sr. said this about people who leak the names of CIA analysts (CIA.gov):

“I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.”

It would appear that even Bush Sr. might think his son is "the most insidious of traitors". What about Lieberman? Perhaps, our campaign should play clips of Bush Sr. making this statement...and ask, "Why is Lieberman silent about this act of treason?"