Little Scottie admits WH told of Berger flap before it leaked ...

[annxburns]

Well AP buried this in an update - but here are the key paragraphs ..

"President Bush (news - web sites)'s spokesman, Scott McClellan, disclosed Wednesday that the Justice Department notified the office of White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzalez about the probe before news of it leaked to the media Monday.


"My understanding is that this investigation has been going on for several months and that some officials in our counsel's office were contacted as part of the investigation," McClellan told reporters. "The counsel's office is the one that is coordinating with the Sept. 11 commission the production of documents and since this relates to some documents, the counsel's office was contacted as part of that investigation." "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040721/ap_on_el_pr/sept_11_berger_probe&cid=694&ncid=1963&sid=96378798

Oh by the way, isn't this a change from there story yesterday? When they said the WH had NO involvement?

Seems like that is an important update no? Why did AP bury it? Because they were the ones that were leaked to?

[RobertSeattle]

1. Good catch

I wonder if it will be in some White House transcript? (Checked and didn't see anything as of the time of this post)

[annxburns]

2. Proof that Scottie changed his story ...

This was on the AP wires yesterday ...

"Scott McClellan, Bush's spokesperson, said no one there was aware of the Berger affair until they read it in some newspapers yesterday. "

LIE!

[Ruby Romaine]

3. problems w/link. Here's another version...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4335943,00.html

[lancdem]

4. Hmmm...

Wonder why the Justice Dept. happened to notify them now, when it's been ongoing since January? Looks highly suspicious to me.

[Democat]

5. I posted links to both quotes in another thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2036519

I wish I could combine that thread with this one. :)