The Bush who cried wolf.

Pete Yost, an AP writer, has been covering the legal affairs beat in Washington D.C. for 20 years. He's seen administrations come and go and he's watched how they react to potential bad news.

According to Yost, Karl Rove wasn't charged by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald because Rove belatedly told the truth to the FBI about his involvement in the outting of Valerie Plame.

This of course has been widely covered elsewhere. What caught my attention was Yost's description of how the White House deliberately lied to the press, and thru them, to the citizens of this country about Karl Rove's role.

Here's the thing that gets me about all of this... how can we trust this White House to tell us the truth? About anything? Of course them misleading reporters was done to protect their own interests. But, so too was the poppycock about Iraqi WMD, the phony national security threat level warnings that only flared up during the heat of the 2004 election only to cease upon Bush having secured re-election, and the absurd caricature of the infamous pre-9/11 Presidential Daily Briefing by then National Security Advisor Condi Rice as mere background information.

The Bush administration says that the NSA isn't spying on American citizens. Why should I believe that? On what rational basis CAN I believe it?

What else are they lying about?

Update: Editor & Publisher keys in on the same Yost article and retitles it appropriately: AP's Yost: Rove Got Away With 'Misleading' the Media (hat tip: Daou Report)