Bush plays dumb on CIA tape destruction

President Bush said Thursday that he first learned of the tapes’ destruction in a briefing this month from Gen. Michael Hayden, the CIA director. Full Story

Why is the top guy always the last to know what’s going on? Of course, what about the other tapes? There can’t be that just two were made.

The president also said he would reserve judgment on the controversy until investigations into the matter are resolved.

“Until these inquiries are complete, until this oversight is finished,” the president said, “I will be rendering no opinion from the podium.”

Bush said he was confident that the inquiries, “coupled with the oversight provided by the Congress, will end up enabling us all to find out what exactly happened.”