Sen. Roy Blunt said it was "obvious" that recent national security leaks to American media came from inside the White House despite President Obama's comment last week that the idea his administration intentionally leaked information was offensive.
"If you read all of these stories…it is clear that the information comes from people in the administration," the Missouri Republican senator told Thomas Roberts on MSNBC Tuesday. "The president, surely if he has read these stories, knows the source was in the administration. He may not have read these stories."
"You are saying that the president lied then?" Roberts asked.
"No, I’m not saying that at all," Blunt continued. "If you read the stories, the source is obviously inside the administration. I wouldn’t suggest the president would knowingly lie. I would suggest the president may not understand the consequence of his comments."
Attorney General Eric Holder who was grilled on Capitol Hill today over security leaks has appointed two U.S. attorneys to investigate the leaks, but Republican senators, including Blunt and John McCain, today called for a separate, independent special counsel to lead the inquiry.
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas called on Holder to resign during the contentious Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Holder declined to do so.
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that's petty rich coming from blunt's mouth calling obama a liar. what do him and his cronies do everyday LIE, LIE, LIE
You know, that's EXACTLY what I was thinking!!! And when are THEY going to start creating those JOBS they ran on during the last election. Geez.
Senator Blunt, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Steve King, and louie Gohmert are just a sample of Repulican members congress who have shown that they are just as Racist as members were from the 17th century and extended all the way to the 1970's were.
A special counsel that interrogated Bush and Cheney together indicated that the counsel was participating in the coverup that would have affected the Office of President or Office of Vice President. My opinion is that Dick Cheney was the culprit that had to be shielded, and as well, he was responsible for fabricating the WMD information presented to the President and Secretary of State. There's a lot of Bush hold-overs in the Obama administration, and I expect that some of them were/are reporting to Dick Cheney.