NY Daily News: Bush Administration Dogged By Scandal

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http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/16849567.htm

Bush administration dogged by scandal
By Thomas M. Defrank

New York Daily News
(MCT)

WASHINGTON - Before his 2004 reelection, President George Bush commissioned his political guru Karl Rove to identify potential pitfalls for Bush's second term.

Rove's analysis noted one common thread: Recent presidents with troubled second acts were all dogged by scandal.

"That won't be a problem for us," a senior Bush aide confidently told the New York Daily News then.

Such hubris was uttered before Hurricane Katrina battered Bush's reputation for competent governance, the Iraq war turned off so many Americans that the Republicans lost control of Congress, and the treatment of wounded warriors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center erupted into a full-fledged scandal.

Now, a federal jury has found that the right-hand man to Vice President Cheney committed four felonies - and the trial record documents that Cheney and several other senior Bush aides were heavily involved in discrediting a war critic.

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1. And Junior himself was involved too.

"And the Libby case showed the president assisting Cheney in the leaked attacks on Wilson."

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