Watson Coleman: “once again, let's be very clear. It is about politics. That is all this is about--politics. We have an Executive order…”

“once again, let's be very clear. It is about politics. That is all this is about--politics. We have an Executive order that has been in place for 10 years that talks about dealing with classified information, talks about what happens when classified information is revealed. An Executive order, by the way, has a standard, deals with a situation: knowingly, willfully or negligently. We have a standard. My colleagues on the other side talk about a coverup. We have a matter that is being investigated by special counsel. The President of the United States says: I have confidence in the special counsel. Let's see what he does. We have Karl Rove, who is cooperating with the special counsel, who openly said: Whoever I talked to, talk to them. There is no cover. This is about politics. I just came from a press conference a little while ago with the head of the campaign committee of the Democratic Party about this issue with Joe Wilson. It is about politics. We have an amendment in which on the first blush it talks about Federal employees, and then after questioning they say: Well, yes, it means public officials. It is not in there. But what happened to the greatest deliberative body in the world? This is about politics. We have an amendment crafted as an ex post facto. Will that pass muster? I don't know. I have questions about it. Again, I go back to the Executive order. It is very clear. It talks about knowingly, willfully, negligently. That makes sense.…”