With tonight's bombshell article from the
Washington Post one thing should not be overlooked: here we now have definitive proof that Bush's administration has not been fully cooperating with Fitzgerald's investigation.
Fitzgerald interviewed Woodward about the previously undisclosed conversation after the official alerted the prosecutor to it on Nov. 3 -- one week after Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted in the investigation.
Citing a confidentiality agreement in which the source freed Woodward to testify but would not allow him to discuss their conversations publicly, Woodward and Post editors refused to disclose the official's name or provide crucial details about the testimony.
Let's be clear, a Senior Administration official withheld crucial evidence regarding the investigation into the outing of a covert operative from the prosecutor until as late as one week after Libby was indicted. Not only have they been stonewalling the investigation, but they still refuse to come clean and tell the American people who in Cheney's administration didn't leak Valerie Plame's name.
McClellan needs to be hammered hard about this at the next gaggle. Why isn't the admin willing to cooperate with the investigation? If they can't comment because of an ongoing investigation, then why in the hell can't they even cooperate with it?