Tuesday

"And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of."

Our constantly-misinterpreted President's words are getting twisted around again in the media. I'm here to set the record straight.

On September 30th, 2003, President Bush addressed job creation with business leaders and was asked a few questions about leaks in his administration.

Q Do you think that the Justice Department can conduct an impartial investigation, considering the political ramifications of the CIA leak, and why wouldn't a special counsel be better?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes. Let me just say something about leaks in Washington. There are too many leaks of classified information in Washington. There's leaks at the executive branch; there's leaks in the legislative branch. There's just too many leaks. And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

And so I welcome the investigation. I -- I'm absolutely confident that the Justice Department will do a very good job. There's a special division of career Justice Department officials who are tasked with doing this kind of work; they have done this kind of work before in Washington this year. I have told our administration, people in my administration to be fully cooperative.

I want to know the truth. If anybody has got any information inside our administration or outside our administration, it would be helpful if they came forward with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true and get on about the business.

"And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of."

True to his word, Scooter Libby has been taken care of. The President extended his executive wing and took in the helpless, if loose-lipped, Libby and commuted his sentence from a Paris Hilton-like 30 months to a "take-care-of"-like zero days. Luckily for Libby, the jury convicted him: The President unequivocally stated that the person would only be taken care of if they broke the law. If the perjury and obstruction of justice charges hadn't held, the President wouldn't have had to have acted like he did to keep his word.

Finally, an issue clear-cut enough to trim all the slack from the liberal media and force them to stop hating our President for his honesty. Watch out Jon Stewart: He'll take care of you next.

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