What Did He Know And When Did He Know It?

Watergate
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Like they always said about Richard Nixon, it wasn't the crime it was the cover-up.

Which, of course, was a crock.

Regardless, Ron Susskind's new book is going to have a lot of folks asking what the Shrub knew and when he knew it. Take this for example:

The book's opening anecdote tells of an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush's Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."

Ya, but that was then and this is now.

And in this now it's an entirely different derriere that needs a whole lotta covering.

Or not.

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