(Video) White House lies, and scapegoats

Before we get to the video, let me just say that this is a complicating matter -- which explains the lack of outrage amongst the public.  Though, when you dig deep, you find the usual pattern of lies, followed by scapegoating.

First thing is first: the White House can not get its story straight.  On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said that it was "her (Harriet Miers') idea only," not Karl Rove's, to fire prosecutors.  And then on that same day, White House counsel Dan Bartlett said, "The White House did not play a specific role in the list of the seven U.S. attorneys."

What Snow and Bartlett said were lies -- to put it bluntly.  According to emails that surfaced via Newsweek, Harriet Miers was not the only one involved.  Karl Rove played a role.  So yes, the White House was involved.  More importantly, if I were Snow or Bartlett, I would be pissed that someone is not giving me all the information I need to know before I talk to the press:

On Jan. 6, 2005, a White House lawyer, Colin Newman, sent a brief e-mail to David Leitch, then the deputy White House counsel under Gonzales. The subject line read: “Question from Karl Rove.” Newman wrote that “Karl Rove stopped by to ask you (roughly quoting) ‘how we planned to proceed regarding U.S. attorneys, whether we are going to allow all to stay, request resignations from all and accept only some of them, or selectively replace them, etc.’”

It seems pretty obvious that Dan Bartlett, Tony Snow and Harriet Miers are being thrown under the bus.  On Scraborough Country, a round table panel underscored the significance of Bush making one of his best friends, Harriet Miers, the scapegoat:

It's desperation time!