Rice Defends Refusal To Testify: "Rice said she has 'absolutely nothing to hide' and 'would really like' to testify but will not because of the constitutional principle."
..."Republican commissioner John F. Lehman, who has written extensively on separation-of-power issues, said that 'the White House is making a huge mistake' by blocking Rice's testimony and decried it as 'a legalistic approach.'
'The White House is being run by a kind of strict construction of interpretation of the powers of the president,' he said on ABC's 'This Week.' 'There are plenty of precedents that the White House could use if they wanted to do this.'"

What do they say? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Seems to be the case here. Sadly our "leaders" are little people entrusted with great power who have made an enormous blunder and are now grasping at straws to cover it up.

We need some great people to stand up beside Clarke and tell the truth. We deserve nothing less than a full account of what Bush did, what he knew and what he failed to do.

Then we can judge for ourselves. That should be how a democracy works, though clearly it's not Bush's policy. His idea of democracy is very traditional, practiced by mushroom farmers all over the world.
- posted by geoff @ #