zimv20
Nov 5, 2005, 05:14 PM
link (http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/05/bush.ethics/index.html)
Bush sends staff back to ethics class
Memo: Staff should adhere to 'spirit' of all rules
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With his chief political aide under investigation as part of a probe into the public unmasking of a CIA operative, President Bush is sending his staff back to school -- ethics school.
Bush is requiring his executive office staff to attend refresher courses on ethics and handling classified materials, according to a White House memo.
"The President has made clear his expectation that each member of his Executive Office of the President (EOP) staff adhere to the spirit as well as the letter of all rules governing ethical conduct for EOP staff," states the memo sent to Bush's staff.
Staff members with security clearances will attend mandatory sessions next week, and those without security clearances will attend mandatory sessions the following week.
The memo went to all EOP staff, which numbers about 3,000, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
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what are we to make of this? a purely political move? perhaps more disturbingly, does bush think this will actually do some good and may have prevented the outing of plame?
regardless, i find that it flies in the face of the kind words he had for libby upon his indictment. mixed messages, as it were.
Bush sends staff back to ethics class
Memo: Staff should adhere to 'spirit' of all rules
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With his chief political aide under investigation as part of a probe into the public unmasking of a CIA operative, President Bush is sending his staff back to school -- ethics school.
Bush is requiring his executive office staff to attend refresher courses on ethics and handling classified materials, according to a White House memo.
"The President has made clear his expectation that each member of his Executive Office of the President (EOP) staff adhere to the spirit as well as the letter of all rules governing ethical conduct for EOP staff," states the memo sent to Bush's staff.
Staff members with security clearances will attend mandatory sessions next week, and those without security clearances will attend mandatory sessions the following week.
The memo went to all EOP staff, which numbers about 3,000, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
(more)
what are we to make of this? a purely political move? perhaps more disturbingly, does bush think this will actually do some good and may have prevented the outing of plame?
regardless, i find that it flies in the face of the kind words he had for libby upon his indictment. mixed messages, as it were.
