Sen Charles Schumer (D-NY) has
called on President Bush to make a statement as to whether or not he knows who the leaker is. Longtime Washington political columnist Bob Novak, in a Q & A session in Raleigh NC
reported by the Raleigh News & Observer, made a startling assertion:
. . . Newspaper columnist Robert Novak is still not naming his source in the Valerie Plame affair, but he says he is pretty sure the name is no mystery to President Bush.
"I'm confident the president knows who the source is," Novak told a luncheon audience at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh on Tuesday. "I'd be amazed if he doesn't."
"So I say, 'Don't bug me. Don't bug Bob Woodward. Bug the president as to whether he should reveal who the source is. "
Today, Sen Schumer demanded that the President settle the matter one way or the other:
MORE AFTER THE JUMP
From the AP story:
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"You are in a position to clear this matter up quickly," Schumer said in a letter to the president on Wednesday.
"Unlike Mr. Novak, who can claim an interest in maintaining the confidentiality of his sources, there is no similar privilege arguably preventing you from sharing this information," Schumer wrote.
"You have repeatedly suggested that you would like to get to the bottom of this affair," Schumer reminded Bush. "At one point, in 2004, you suggested that anyone who was involved in leaking the name of the covert CIA operative would be fired."
Here's the full story. RATE IT UP!
This is make-or-break time for the President. Rove is apparently about to be indicted, and if the President has critical information in a criminal matter, he is behaving criminally by covering it up.
Time to come clean, George W. Contact the White House. Call 202-456-1111 or E-mail comments@whitehouse.gov and demand that President Bush (a) identify, and punish, the leaker; or (b) officially deny that he knows who the leaker is, and publicly refute Novak's allegation.
Enough is enough.
