{"id":7715,"date":"2006-06-17T11:04:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T15:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7715"},"modified":"2006-06-17T11:04:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T15:04:56","slug":"it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-ethical-standard-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-ethical-standard-is\/","title":{"rendered":"It depends on what the meaning of ‘ethical standard’ is"},"content":{"rendered":"

[tag]Karl Rove[\/tag]’s role in the [tag]Plame[\/tag] scandal seemed to fade pretty quickly after it became apparent that he wouldn’t get indicted, but to their credit, at least a couple of [tag]White House[\/tag] reporters are following up with some reasonable questions. From [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag]’s most recent briefing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Q: Let me ask a general question then. In 2000, the President said it wasn’t enough to simply not be indicted in the White House, that he had a higher ethical standard. Is that, in fact, still the ethical standard —<\/p>\n

Snow: Yes.<\/p>\n

Q: — or, in fact, should we interpret from his comments yesterday that as long as you’re not indicted, everything is fine?<\/p>\n

Snow: Apparently, you’ve indicted Karl.<\/p>\n

Q: No, I’m asking a question.<\/p>\n

Snow: And yes, the answer is, the ethical standard still applies.<\/p>\n

Q: And what is the [tag]ethical standard[\/tag]?<\/p>\n

Snow: You tell me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“You tell me<\/i>“? Reporters should tell the White House about the president’s ethical standards?<\/p>\n

Shortly after this, Snow explained that Bush expects White House officials to “serve honorably.” Asked directly by a reporter whether Rove has served honorably, Snow said, “Like I said, don’t try to get me to bite on it because I’m not going to do it.”<\/p>\n

That’s not much of an answer. Should we take it as a “no”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[tag]Karl Rove[\/tag]’s role in the [tag]Plame[\/tag] scandal seemed to fade pretty quickly after it became apparent that he wouldn’t get indicted, but to their credit, at least a couple of [tag]White House[\/tag] reporters are following up with some reasonable questions. From [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag]’s most recent briefing: Q: Let me ask a general question then. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}