Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has written a letter to George Bush in which he points out that Bush's conveniently modified criteria for dealing with staff involved in the Plame case "is not consistent with your obligations to enforce Executive Order 12958, which governs the protection of national security secrets."
Under the executive order, according to Waxman, "you may not wait until criminal intent and liability are proved by a prosecutor."
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The reasons for Bush's tapdancing are obvious. Karl Rove has been called "Bush's Brain". Rove has been the mastermind of the Bush political strategy for years. Rove's dirty tricks won Bush the 2004 election, and his wag-the-dog and shoot-the-messenger tactics have kept the American public sufficiently ignorant and compliant for a long time.
Without Rove and his evil-genius strategies, the Bush administration risks a greater level of accountability.
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