White House Sat On Berger Story Until This Week

by Steve

Here's your best indication that the Berger document flap was nothing more than a political misdirection ploy between Karl Rove and John Ashcroft. The White House now admits that the Counsel's office inside the White House has known about the investigation of Berger for months, and won't confirm or deny that Ashcroft was the source of the recent leak to the AP that started all of this.

The White House declined to say who beyond the counsel's office knew about the investigation, but some administration officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they believed that several top aides to Mr. Bush were informed of the investigation.

Read that to mean Rove.

So Alberto Gonzalez has known about this investigation for months, and suddenly it is leaked to the friendly media just days before the commission report comes out, and the GOP and others immediately speculate that Berger fed classified documents to Kerry, even though Kerry already had access to these documents as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Swell. Now can we go back to real stories now?