A failure to focus on ‘high treason’
Re “Bush, Cheney blamed for falsehood,” Nov. 21
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan admits that President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. as well as Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby all lied about their involvement in the outing of a covert CIA agent, Valerie Plame.
How is this not an impeachable offense? Not only covering up their involvement in the leak, but the actual act of deliberately disclosing the identity of covert agent? Former President George H.W. Bush, who signed into law severe sanctions for the outing of agents, called this kind of disclosure “high treason.”
Eric Burns
Los Angeles
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The single most frightening aspect of our current national dilemma is the abdication of the media’s responsibility to report important news. The huge story of the revelation by McClellan about Plamegate was buried in Wednesday’s Times, a few paltry paragraphs from the Associated Press on Page 20, when it should have been a front-page story, if not a banner headline. Surely, it is more significant to your readership than the Munchkins getting a star on Hollywood Boulevard. (I hope!)
Steven Cagan
Sherman Oaks
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