The Guy At The Top Is Ultimately Responsible

That's why there is a guy at the top and not many at the top. Someone has to be in charge and responsible.

It can be argued, and I have done so, Dim Son is actually third from the top behind Addington and Cheney, but he's the figurehead or nominal guy at the top.

President Bush told the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case that he directed Vice President Dick Cheney to personally lead an effort to counter allegations made by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV that his administration had misrepresented intelligence information to make the case to go to war with Iraq, according to people familiar with the president's statement.

Bush also told federal prosecutors during his June 24, 2004, interview in the Oval Office that he had directed Cheney, as part of that broader effort, to disclose highly classified intelligence information that would not only defend his administration but also discredit Wilson, the sources said.

But Bush told investigators that he was unaware that Cheney had directed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, to covertly leak the classified information to the media instead of releasing it to the public after undergoing the formal governmental declassification processes.

Bush also said during his interview with prosecutors that he had never directed anyone to disclose the identity of then-covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, Wilson's wife. Bush said he had no information that Cheney had disclosed Plame's identity or directed anyone else to do so.

Way to go jorge, throwing Cheney and Libby under the bus like that. What a great and loyal friend.

For now let's assume the moron-in-chief is allowed to be boss to some extent. Much All of my legal traning has come from movies, TV and the odd cartoon. That said, it seems if "the boss" tells a rabid dog like Cheney to "politically neuter" someone, he should not be surprised nor innocent if said rabid dog does it viciously and illegally.

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