Joe makes a good point here:

But the larger issue is the one that poses the most danger to this administration - particularly if White House guru Karl Rove winds up being indicted in Plamegate.

It's the fact that Americans have learned you cannot trust the assertions or assurances of members of this administration because it'll turn out later that reality is a different matter.

The key here is the word "later." Officials will issue a statement or a seeming assurance. It later turns out to be incorrect. They either deny they said the original statement or just ignore what was said or implied before. And when former statements are researched (or old videos of them shown) they show that a) statements were not accurate b) there were instances of omission where an inaccurate statement was not made but the implication was left out there that a situation was a certain way, which it wasn't.

And it seems that the American people have learned a lesson that countless nations have learned before them... Trading liberty for security gives us neither...

And Right Wingers wonder why Lefty's are quick to call a lie a lie...

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