Not only is this somewhat a perjury hunt, its also human nature. The witness always wants to think they are the only decent human being in a nest of rats. And if it takes a little selective memory and hazy memory to support that position, they work with the tools that are available is a surface explanation. And like Libby and watergate before that, its still an early stage of investigations, and the statements they make now may later morph into perjury or obstruction of justice. They just don't know it yet---and when they wake up and smell the coffee---its too late.
But when I try to apply logic to peer slightly deeper beneath the rippled surface and try to tease some more truth out of what amounts to very muddy water, I quickly become baffled about one thing. Namely, why would the GWB administration, arguably the most secretive in American history, allow the release of a set of papers that almost totally and conclusively disproves their own version of events?
And even if the Attorney General firing come to nothing, this is just the tip of a tip of an entire iceberg.
Senator Waxman is working on a huge pile of similar investigation with only dilemma being what set of glaring problems to concentrate on first. Other committees are working on their areas. I had posted shortly after the election that these investigations were coming because there was going to be a new Sheriff in town. I just had no idea that GWB&co. was going to be so incompetent at concealing their deeds.
Given the assumption that most of these investigations in other areas are not at the critical mass stage yet and the assumption that many will go past the testable hypothesis stage soon, will the GWB administration learn to hide things better?---or are they doomed?--may well be the next logical question.
Comparisons to watergate are almost inevitable with a lot of differences also. I thinks its the judgment of history that if Nixon had cut his losses early on and fired those involved early on, he would have weathered the storm and served out his term. And Nixon really had only one problem that rose to impeachment level to deal with. As it is, he gave his critics a merry chase for over a year by stone walling the release of relevant information.
My guess is that soon GWB&co will have not just one problem that rises to impeachment level but perhaps dozens in just a matter of the next three or four months. With many of those the sins of the past six years. Will GWB&co. similarly lead his critics on a merry chase, will he too go the way of Nixon, or will he learn to cut his losses? In terms of the latter question---given his continued support of Gonzales, the answer is a no.
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