With regard to the CIA’s torture tapes, Bush is still pushing the totally implausible fiction that he knows as little as you and I.

Not only is he insisting that his “first recollection” of being told about the tapes (existence or destruction) was when CIA Director Michael Hayden briefed him earlier this month, but he continues to suggest that he still doesn’t know more than us:

I am confident that the preliminary inquiry conducted by the AG and the IG of the CIA, coupled with the oversight provided by the Congress, will end up enabling us all to find out what exactly happened. And therefore, over the course of these inquiries and oversight hearings, I’m going to reserve judgment until I find out the full facts.

Like I said before, wasn’t there a time when the President of the United States could just snap his fingers, and order up the full facts right away?