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| AP: "Papers: Cheney Aide Says Bush OK'd Leak" | |
| 2006-04-06 | |
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide told prosecutors President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak case.
Before his indictment, I. Lewis Libby testified to the grand jury investigating the CIA leak that Cheney told him to pass on information and that it was Bush who authorized the disclosure, the court papers say. According to the documents, the authorization led to the July 8, 2003, conversation between Libby and New York Times reporter Judith Miller. They go on to say that the papers didn't specify which info was to be divulged. The whole article also doesn't mention earlier information I saw that said the NIE from the prewar period was being declassified at this time. According to this item at the nortoriously uberneoconservative think tank the Federation of American Scientists, large parts of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq were being declassified in UJuly 2003. | |
| Posted by:Abdominal Snowman |
| #5 Considering that the president is the classification authority, he is also the declassification authority. Duh! |
| Posted by: Hupomotle Fluling3523 2006-04-06 23:33 |
| #4 Went over to that cesspool called DU. The DUmmy's are doing a happy dance about this. Don't know what they put in the Kool-aid over there, but the pitcher is empty. |
| Posted by: DMDF 2006-04-06 22:00 |
| #3 ABC Radio news said that it was scoped toward Iraq's nuclear ambitions and NOT anything to do with the release of the name of "a CIA officer" (Valerie Plame). And THAT turned out not to be a crime in any event. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2006-04-06 15:35 |
| #2 OK where is the story? Bush allowed intelligence inforamtion to be disseminated? Ok he can do that simply by ordering it done. The story tries to tie the act with the non-criminal discloure that Plame worked at the CIA. Nice try but no cigar. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-04-06 15:13 |
| #1 One wonders what process one has to go through to become a headline writer. William Sherman once said he could hang all the reporters attached to his army and they'd be sending dispatches from hell before breakfast. I now know what the headlines would be: "Heaven filled with the smell of delicious pork barbecue." |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2006-04-06 14:28 |