Well, George, what do you have to say? For yourself, that is...

anything informative besides stamping your foot and having a little temper tantrum on national television...?

The extent to which President Bush knew of and was involved with the plan to fire eight U.S. attorneys in December is at the heart of whether he will be able to successfuly exercise executive privilege in fighting congressional subpoenas of White House aides, The Hill is reporting.

In an email exchange found among the 3,000 documents delivered to Congress by the Justice Department, Kyle Sampson, former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, asked White House counsel Harriet Miers whether he had approval to move forward with the firings.

"Miers responded that she was 'not sure whether this will be determined to require the boss’s attention.' Her e-mail ended with the words: 'We will see. Thanks,'" reports the Hill. "Sampson, who resigned last week, responded with a critical question: 'Who will determine whether whether [sic] this requires the President’s attention?'"

The rest of the disclosed Justice Department documents do not provide evidence of whether the President was involved in those discussions. But since only two e-mails delivered to Congress were dated in the period between mid-November and December 4, it is believed that there may yet exist undisclosed e-mails from that period which provide answers.

having other people talk about what you knew and didn't know really isn't very helpful...

In response to a barrage of questions from reporters yesterday, White House spokesman Tony Snow said only that Bush had “no recollection of [the firings] ever being raised with him.”

seems to be a lot of memory issues popping up these days... fortunately, george doesn't have to reach back as far in time as scooter did...

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