Chris Dodd for President

Senator Dodd has an op-ed today in The Huffington Post, calling for investigations into the President and Vice President's alleged participation in a cover up of White House involvement in the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. Read the full piece at The Huffington Post or click "Read More" to go below the fold and read it here.

There has been a positive response to Senator Dodd's call for an investigation by Attorney General Mukasey what President Bush knew and when he knew it about the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. Here are a few links for you to check out this morning:

Dean Barker, in a recommended diary at Daily Kos, writes, "Dodd led the successful fight against telecom immunity. I'm happy to see his leadership on the rule of law continues to shine here. This is right in line with his commitment to restore the constitution, the stance that made me a proud NH primary Dodd supporter back in September."

In the comments of Dean's diary, Abe Frohman writes, "Nice job Senator Dodd! Please keep the heat on the dual icebergs of telecom immunity (which is far from settled) and on oversight of this criminal administration."

Abijah Adams praises Dodd's call for investigating McClellan and thinks Democrats need to "investigate everything."

Jeralyn of TalkLeft gives us a rundown of some of McClellan's statements as White House Press Secretary that we now know are false.

Chris Dodd today released the following statement in response to the claims of former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan that he "unknowingly passed along false information" to the American public and that "the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in [his] doing so," including the Vice-President and the President:

"Today's revelations by Mr. McClellan are very disturbing and raise several important questions that need to be answered. If in fact the President of the United of States knowingly instructed his chief spokesman to mislead the American people, there can be no more fundamental betrayal of the public trust.

"During his confirmation process, Attorney General Mukasey said he would act independently. Accordingly, today, I call on the Attorney General to live up to his word and launch an immediate investigation to determine the facts of this case, the extent of any cover up and determine what the President knew and when he knew it."