Lies, More Lies And Damn Lies........

The lies are starting to catch up with King George's White House and its' slimy gang of treasonous thugs. The Washington Post documents some of the contradictions that are becoming known from the Grand Jury testimony Bloomberg and the New York Times move the ball forward today, courtesy of what appear to be a growing number of leakers. And here, culled from those and other reports, are what would seem to be some of the harder-to-reconcile contradictions in the case, which started out as an investigation into who leaked a CIA agent's identity -- but which now could be turning into another testament to the Washington maxim that the cover-up is always worse than the crime. · White House chief political strategist Karl Rove reportedly told the grand jury that he first learned of Valerie Plame's identity from columnist Robert Novak -- but Novak's version of the story is that Rove already knew about her when the two spoke. · Rove didn't mention his conversation with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper to investigators at first and then said it was primarily about welfare reform. But Cooper has testified that the topic of welfare reform didn't came up. · Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby apparently told prosecutors he first heard about Plame from NBC's Tim Russert, but Russert has testified that he neither offered nor received information about Plame in his conversation with Libby. · And former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer apparently told prosecutors that he never saw a classified State Department memo that disclosed Plame's identity, but another former official reportedly saw him perusing it on Air Force One. If these reports are accurate, then Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald may well be zeroing in on not only perjury charges against present and former WH officials, but this has the appearance of an outright obstruction of justice. If the administration had nothing to hide, why the coverup and why the lies? I don't like to see the term "conspiracy" used flippantly, but this is a case when it may just well be accurate. And that is not tin-foil hattery my friends. Take a look at the entire timeline from the NYT HERE, and more from The Washington Post HERE.