His statements about finding and punishing the culprits will come to haunt him. The corruption smells to high heavens.
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Compared with other deceptions that George W. Bush has perpetrated in the years since he promised to restore honor and integrity to the Oval Office, this one cannot be spun away as a misunderstanding, a "misunderestimate" or a mistake.
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From the moment that the Justice Department opened its probe of the disclosure of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity to the press, Bush insisted that he wanted to find and punish the culprits, especially if any of them were among his White House staff.
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He claimed to consider the leaking of classified information to be a matter of the utmost seriousness.
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