The administration has known this for as many as 17 months, that these explosives were missing. They had no intention of sharing that information with the American public before the election.
Joe Lockhart accuses the Bush administration of withholding information about missing explosives for political reasons.
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This is going to be a chance for John Kerry to stand next to the president and give the American public a chance to say, Does he have what it takes to be president? Does he have the strength and the wisdom and the judgment?
if truth is not a priority for this White House, is it worth restoring the press briefing?
But the political question is the optics of the President of the United States tying the courts up for the next year or two to cope himself from going in and telling the truth to the prosecutor are very bad political optics.
Republicans from the beginning have basically said there is nothing to see here, there is no problem with obstruction.