At the same time, all too frequently, members of the Bush Administration appeat to have placed political expediency above veracity. Whether it was then White House Press Secretary stating that “I spoke with [Karl Rove and Scooter Libby], so that I could come back to you and say that they were not involved ” in the leak of Valerie Plame ’s name, ” or President Bush declaring that “any time you hear the United States government talking about a wiretap it requires . . . a court order, ”there have been numerous instances where political convenience appears to have taken precedence over the principle of communicating fully, frankly, and honestly with the American people and their representatives.

350 pages asked for by John Conyers about how things work under W. It's sort of like Stalin, but with less shooting of the home populace.

The Constitution in Crisis