This is just ridiculous.....Tony Snow up on the podium today spinning his a$$ off and then the Chicago Tribune Blog finds this:
It seems that during the Clinton trials and tribulations, Snow wrote a column about "executive privilege"....
"Evidently, Mr. Clinton wants to shield virtually any communications that take place within the White House compound on the theory that all such talk contributes in some way, shape or form to the continuing success and harmony of an administration,'' the columnist wrote. "Taken to its logical extreme, that position would make it impossible for citizens to hold a chief executive accountable for anything.''
ooohhhhh, but it gets even better.....
Mr. Clinton can't blame his lawyers for this latest feint. He alone can assert the privilege. The maneuver places him at the heart of his administration's ongoing effort to use executive privilege as a way of concealing the truth about whether the president exposed himself. It is almost impossible to think of this as anything but a tactic to delay independent counsel Kenneth Starr long enough for James Carville and other red-ant assailants to nibble at Mr. Starr and pump as much venom as possible into the political system.
Snow wrote that stuff ten years ago and now the shoe is literally on the other foot. How can he claim any credibility at all? How long can this administration hide behind the veneer of "statesmanship" when they are really nothing more than hypocritical political hacks?
