Cleaning Up
Aug 10th, 2005 at 7:18 am by Susie
And I’m sure they wouldn’t dream of purging any embarrassing documents:
Thrown on the defensive by recent revelations about Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.’s legal work, White House aides are delaying the release of tens of thousands of documents from the Reagan administration to give themselves time to find any new surprises before they are turned into political ammunition by Democrats. Before Roberts’s July 19 selection by President Bush, there was no comprehensive effort to examine the voluminous paper trail from his previous tours as an important legal and political hand under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, administration officials said.
Three weeks later, these officials say they recognize that Roberts’s record is going to be central to Senate confirmation hearings scheduled to begin Sept. 6, and lawyers and political aides are urgently reviewing more than 50,000 pages — at the same time denying requests from Democrats for an immediate release.
It’s now clear — ALL unreleased documents, including those on judge Roberts and John Boy Bolton, are being withheld for purely political reasons. This should be hammered home time and again and make Republicans tell why it’s anything else. Show it for the dishonest, cynical ploy it is.
There will be no more press conferences for bush. He will never be asked to respond any question regarding the release of Roberts documents. He might as well just stay in Texas and let Rove run the government.