"Suppose the White House Counsel, under Bush, had issued a statement that all of the terrible things you folks think the Bush administration did was simply not true?"

It wasn't just the White House Counsel I was referring to...it was several analysts and respected legal scholars also.

And what IS it with you and beardedbruce wanting to make irrelevant "double standard" comparisons to every issue? What Bush & company did - not what we "think" they did....what they were proven to have done...was not even in the same category as this little non-item. It is simply not comparable. As a matter of fact, the Bush administration DID do similar things, and the Democrats merely shrugged at most of them, except the ones that clearly were instances of 'revolving door' appointments for lobbyists...etc.

(Oh...and your icon, Reagan, did similar things, but he was 'teflon coated' and just grinned in his engaging manner whenever anyone tried to get answers.)