Joe Wilson:Bush "is either completely out of touch or he's an accessory to an obstruction of justice

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/21/publisher-says-bushs-role-in-wh-misinformation-clarified-in-book/#more-3278

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"I think it (book excerpt) now makes it very clear the extent to which the vice president was involved, which, of course, then makes it very clear how important to the vice president the commutation of Mr. Libby's sentence was," Joe Wilson said on CNN's "American Morning" on Wednesday.

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"They basically closed ranks, guaranteed that the cloud (special prosecutor Patrick) Fitzgerald said was over the vice president's head would not be lifted," Joe Wilson said. "And now because of McClellan's statement, that cloud is over the president himself.

"He is either completely out of touch or he's an accessory to an obstruction of justice both before the fact and after the fact."

He added, "At a bare minimum, for openers, think it's incumbent upon the president and vice president now to release the transcripts of their statements to the special prosecutor, so we now have a fuller understanding of what they knew, when they knew it, and what they said to Justice."

In addition, the public deserves to know "whether or not they continue to frustrate the efforts of the Justice Department and the efforts of the government to get to the bottom of what is essentially the betrayal of national security of our country," said Wilson.