Democrat Out To Fix Leaky Colleagues
I’m no fan of David Obey, but I’m applauding his latest efforts to put a cork in some of his leaky colleagues.
What do House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) and Richard Nixon have in common? They hate leakers.
So Obey, trying to stop colleagues’ leaks about the Democrats’ controversial Iraq war funding strategy, tried to trap the leakers.
“Three days ago, I gave several members of our caucus false information on purpose, because I wanted to see who the hell was leaking that information,” Obey told National Journal. “So these people aren’t being invited to the meetings anymore.”
Asked who the suspects were, Obey spokeswoman Kirsten Brost said she had asked Obey but “he told me not to leak that information.”
Now if we could just get Obey and the rest of the Dems to pursue leaks of government information beyond just what strategies the Dems are cooking up to force failure in Iraq. Like, you know, the top-secret information about the measures we’re taking to wage the war on terror that always seems to find its way into the hands of journalists out to embarrass the President and undermine his policies.
By the way, wondering who Obey’s net caught? He may not be naming names, but my money’s on Jim Moran given these comments from the same article:
Committee member James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), for one, said he does not believe he is a suspect. “I may leak, but I don’t leak inaccurate information,” Moran told our colleague Michael Shear.
Uh, sure Jim.
