- Dr. James Knodell, Director, Office of Security, The White House
- Mr. Bill Leonard, Director, Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration
Watching CSPAN of Waxman’s hearing, there’s such partisanship from the Congressional Panel members that it’s hard to follow the deliberations. Representative Tom Davis is the attorney for the Administration. But there’s one clearly absurd point. Dr. Knodell argued that there was no Administrative Investigation of the C.I.A. Leaks because there was a Criminal Investigation underway by the Justice Depoartment. This point isn’t partisan, it’s factual. The point of an Administrative Investigation is to plug the leak and prevent future leaks. It has nothing to do with criminality. This makes absolutely no sense. The fact of a criminal investigation addresses something in the past. The Administrative responsibility of these two men addresses not only the past, but the present, and the future. To suspend the Administrative Investigation because there is a Criminal Investigation is way backwards, totally uspide down. Find the source and plug it trumps punish the criminal 100% of the time.
And as for Victoria Toensing [February 18, 2007]:
Plame was not covert. She worked at CIA headquarters and had not been stationed abroad within five years of the date of Novak’s column.
Victoria Toensing looked and acted like a shrew, or a witch or both. I had to mute the sound and I sped it up on TIVO and I thought she looked so evil. I don’t believe she showed anything in her testimony but her bias and meaness.
Sorry to appear again but I forgot to say that the finding by the Waxman hearing that there was no investigation of leaking of the CIA agent in the White House reminded me of the time Mr. Butterfield told the Watergate hearing that the White house taped all its conversation with President Nixon. It was a shocking revelation.
It was like Butterfield. Just too big to make a sounde. A sort of deafening silence…