Newsday's Ellis Henican: Hunt for leaker lacks inspiration

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http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nyhen083486049oct08,0,4166749.column?coll=ny-news-columnists
Ellis Henican



So what is the chance that the president's in-house gumshoes will ever finger the two "senior administration officials" who leaked an undercover CIA operative's name?



Lucky Bush didn't approach the search for Saddam with the same lackadaisical shrug. Uday and Qusay would already be dating again by now.


Hadn't the president's own father, a former CIA director, spoken eloquently in 1999 about the kinds of scoundrels who would blow an American agent's cover? They are "the most insidious of traitors," the first President Bush had said.
For more than two months, his son did little. Only after the CIA demanded it was an investigation begun.

And even then, not an independent one. Bush put his loyal attorney general, John Ashcroft, in charge of the probe. And the e-mail and phone logs of White House staffers wouldn't be handed directly to Justice Department investigators. The records would be vetted first by the president's lawyer, Alberto Gonzales.

[RobertSeattle]

1. No kidding

What if Bush had said "Osama: Dead or Alive, but I don't think we'll ever find him".