Whistle while you work, Russert is a jerk

White House lap dog, pseudo-journalist Tim Russert knew in the spring of 04 that he had information that could blow the top off the Plame leak case, namely proof that Scooter Libby lied. So what this champion of a free press and an informed public do?

Russert was aware that a special prosecutor probing the leak of a CIA operative's name knew of his summer 2003 telephone conversation with Libby, and that Libby had released him from any promise of confidentiality. But Russert, the Washington bureau chief for NBC News and host of "Meet the Press," and his attorneys argued in previously sealed court filings in June 2004 that he should not have to tell a grand jury about that conversation, because it would harm Russert's relationship with other sources.

Yeah right. And it just might have prevented his masters from bamboozling the public into reelecting the gang of thugs that are making such a mess of our country right now. Russert isn't the only one. All these wankers, from Judy Miller, to Cooper, to freaking Woodward, sat on damning evidence that could have prevented the atrocities of the last year simply by doing their job and informing the public. And you wonder why I go to the foreign press for my news?