Juicy Freudian Slip?
Yesterday, Sara Taylor was the latest Bush lackey/DOJ Hot Babe to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the attorney scandal, claiming a rather questionable application of the concept of executive privilege.
According to her, Bush had ordered her to invoke ‘executive privilege’ and speak nothing of the U.S. attorneys, the deliberations about the U.S. attorneys, White House involvement in such deliberations, the external or internal conversations about the U.S. attorneys, blah blah blah.
The end result was that she frustrated lawmakers by appearing to make a true effort to answer questions, yet whenever they entered uncomfortable ground, she invoked that ‘privilege.’
As Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said at the end of the session:
“Each time the finger points at you, you hide behind your oath to the president!”
But early in the hearing, she made an almost comical Freudian slip. During questioning by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Taylor testified:
“I took an oath. And I take that oath to the president very seriously.”
Sen. Leahy was aghast. After a break, he asked:
“Did you mean, perhaps, you took an oath to the Constitution?”
UPDATE:
“I know that the president refers to the government being his government — it’s not”
-Pat Leahy, further rebutting the above statement by Sara Taylor