What Did He Know, and When Did He Know It?

For all the furor over possible upcoming indictments by Patrick Fitzgerald, so far the whispering has been confined to people like Rove and Libby. Yet in this article, it's clear Smirk knows an awful lot more than he's willing to share.

An angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years ago for his role in the Valerie Plame affair...

Gee, if Smirk said he didn't know the facts then, why do we now have an article that says he "rebuked" Rove two years ago?

Let's look at the transcript from the White House press conference of 30 Sep 2003-- a little over two years ago:

Q Yesterday we were told that Karl Rove had no role in it --

THE PRESIDENT: Yes.

Q -- have you talked to Karl and do you have confidence in him --

THE PRESIDENT: Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing.

Gee, I wonder-- if he "didn't know of anybody" and hadn't talked to anybody, yet was able to upbraid Karl, doesn't that seem like a paradox? You imagine?

While the current political climate means impeachment probably isn't going to happen anytime soon, I, for one, would certainly like Smirk, among others, to be a wee bit more forthcoming about what they knew, and when they knew it. Despite the unpublished stories not coming out of the Corporate Media echo chamber, I strongly suspect that if journalists followed their conscience and wrote the stories they should be writing, we'd have quite a few more tongues wagging about what's happening behind closed doors at 1600 Pennsylvania...