TRAITORGATE: Awesome Yahoo AP story, with interesting Press Behavior

[ShaneGR]

I love it! The Press is playing Whack-a-Bush! Pile it on!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=1&u=/ap/20030930/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak

Awesome Press Behavior Moment of the Year!
The focus on Rove brought an odd twist to Bush's travels. When the president boarded Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington, he walked up the steps and waved — and not a single camera followed. He looked perplexed. All lenses were trained on Rove at the bottom of the steps.

Good Morning Vietnam!
Most White House employees discovered the probe was under way when they turned on their computers and found an e-mail timed at 8:46 a.m. that said: PLEASE READ: Important Message From Counsel's Office.

"You must preserve all materials that might in any way be related to the department's investigation," counsel Alberto Gonzales ordered. Officials indicated that would include telephone logs, e-mails, notes and other documents.

Leading Dems Lay the Smackdown!
Democrats demanded the appointment of a special outside counsel but Bush resisted. "I'm absolutely confident that the Justice Department can do a good job," he said on a re-election fund-raising stop in Chicago.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Oh my

This is Watergate, as I knew it was in July...

Now quick look back at the original, this is moving faster than
the original

[ShaneGR]

2. Well

It doesn't seem to me that the story would come back after 10 weeks and just go away. Stories don't disappear and then reappear one PAGE 1 a few months later.

This puppy has BIG legs.