Tuesday WH Briefing: John Roberts and Iran-Contra

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000991994

Virtually giving up, at last, on getting Press Secretary Scott McClellan to comment on the Plame/CIA leak affair, reporters at today's White House briefing concentrated on another hot issue, the Demcorats' attempt to get the White House to release more of a paper trail on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.

The White House says it will hand over more than enough documents, while the Democrats want more.

One emerging hot button issue revolves around the holding back of Roberts documents from his days in the Bush I administration as a deputy in the Solicitor General's office, on grounds of client-attorney privilege. Of particular interest here, for Democrats, is what advice Roberts might have offered leading up to President George H.W. Bush's pardon of Caspar Weinberger and others in the Iran-Control scandal.

But some feel that that client-attorney privilege argument may not hold, legally, so the White House may also be prepared to deny documents on “national security” grounds. This prompted perhaps the most pointed question of today's briefing (from a “Dana,” presumably Dana Milbank of The Washington Post), who asked near the end of the session, “Do you consider Iran-Contra a national security issue?”

“I haven't even thought about that, Dana,” McClellan replied, “to tell you the truth.”

[gkhouston]

1. wow, I wonder how much brain conditioning it took

for Scotty to *not* think of it...

[Supersedeas]

2. they will stonewall on the "privilege" issue alone

[iconoclastic cat]

3. “to tell you the truth.”

Was there laughter from the presstitutes after that line?

[rock]

4. "To tell you the truth”

Code words for, "I'm lying through my teeth."

[SpiralHawk]

6. "I haven't even thought about it..." hardy har har

If they haven't thought about it, why do they already have an Information Blockade in place around who Roberts really is.

they want the American people to take a pig in a poke.

Just the kind of sleazy deal you'd expect from a Connecticut Yankee preppy cheerleader, who pretends to be a Texas cowboy.

In the realm of truth, this is AWOL. Just like Bush himself.

[Lindacooks]

5. This misadministsration is sounding more and more like Nixon.

and the crooks who surrounded him.

[MuseRider]

7. Many ARE the same crooks! n/t

[Lindacooks]

10. You're exactly right.

I never thought of that, but you're right.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. "...more than enough documents..."

:banghead:

[1932]

9. Iran-Contra is NOT a national security issue. Americans need to know MORE

about that fiasco, and not less.

[bleever]

11. The Solicitor General works for us, dammit.

The people of the U.S. of Freakin' A., so if there's attorny-client privelege, we DO have the right to know.

I'm still so angry about that Iran-Contra pardon chapter that I hope this DOES open that back up. It's a festering boil on our government that needs to be lanced.

[mom cat]

12. King George = US...n/t

[rateyes]

13. Man, I was just thinking the same damned thing..

The SOLICITOR GENERAL works for US, not as the President's personal attorney---attorney/client privilege my rosy, red ass.