White House curiously silent about Senators' letter

President George W. Bush has not responded to four US senators who expressed concern about the European sale of military transport aircraft to Venezuela.

A spokesman for Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida, pictured) tells El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language paper of the Miami Herald, that the White House has not replied to the letter, sent six weeks earlier on June 5.

The silence is odd, as the administration pulled out all the stops to prevent EADS CASA from modernizing Chavez's military forces.

El Nuevo Herald credited this blogger with writing an article that formed the "root" of the senators' complaint.

To read the senators' letter, click here.