Bush Blocked Ethics Inquiry, Gonzales Says (1 Viewer)

[jfuh]

Now why would Bush be doing this? Seems strange, unless he's doing something unethical perhaps? Dunno, just speculating.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/w...&en=0949f4221a5669ba&ei=5094&partner=homepage

 

[akyron]

Now why would Bush be doing this? Seems strange, unless he's doing something unethical perhaps? Dunno, just speculating.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/w...&en=0949f4221a5669ba&ei=5094&partner=homepage

same article.

"“We had to draw the line somewhere,” said a senior Justice Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of lack of authorization to comment. “There was already lots of oversight on this program, and we had to consider the interest” in protecting the program’s secrecy by limiting the number of people who knew its details."

“We were trying to limit the scope of people who had access to all the details of the program,’’ the official said, “and a judgment was made that it was not worth reading these additional people into it.”

I wouldnt have let Jarrett and Hichney in on it either.

 

[Befuddled_Stoner]

The fact that the president himself shot down an ethical oversight investigation commissioned by Congress on the grounds that they are not ethical enough to not disclose sensitive national security information affirms to me that there is major duplicity going on in Washington. Either the people responsible for this ethical oversight are too corrupt or politically biased that they are completely incapable of doing their job, or the president is doing something so questionably ethical that allowing Congress to perform their duty of checking and balancing the executive branch would almost certainly lead to public disclosure and cause political damage to the administration. It would be nice to hear a compelling argument as to why the OPR isn’t ethical enough to avoid disclosing matters truly related to national security. Until then, with this administration’s history of covering up questionably ethical programs and aggrandizing how vital they are to national security, he does not have my sympathies in this matter.