Standards and practices
President Bush says that “
it’s being played out in the press” like that’s a bad thing. If it weren’t for the press, we wouldn’t know that Karl Rove identified a CIA agent to a reporter. We wouldn’t know that he thinks it’s okay because he didn’t give the reporter the agent’s name. (“Wilson’s wife” isn’t her name; that much is true.) And now we wouldn’t know that the president won’t fire Rove unless he’s indicted and convicted. That’s a pretty low standard of integrity to hold your deputy chief of staff to. That’s what encourages cover-ups. If you don’t get caught they can’t charge you with anything, and if they can’t charge you they can’t convict you. We have regressed to Watergate-era mentality in this administration, and it’s only taken them four years to get us there.
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