Posted on 04/06/2006 8:51:49 AM PDT by good god
APRIL 6--A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that President George Bush authorized him to leak information from a classified intelligence report to a New York Times reporter. Details of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's testimony were included in a court filing made yesterday by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who is prosecuting Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements in connection with the probe into the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity.
According to Fitzgerald's filing, an excerpt of which you'll find below, Libby, 55, testified in 2003 that he provided reporter Judith Miller with information from a classified National Intelligence Estimate after being told by Cheney that Bush "specifically had authorized" him to "disclose certain information in the NIE." Libby also testified that Cheney also specifically directed him to speak to other reporters about information in the classified NIE (which addresses Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction programs) as well as a cable authored by Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson. The leaking of the classified material was apparently done in an effort to counter claims made by Wilson regarding the White House's justification for invading Iraq.
The Fitzgerald filing also notes that Libby told grand jurors that he conferred with David Addington, Cheney's counsel, about the leak directive and that Addington told him "that Presidential authorization to publicly disclose a document amounted to a declassification of the document."
While both Bush and Cheney have been interviewed by Fitzgerald, it is unknown whether they confirmed or disputed Libby's assertion that he was authorized to disclose findings in a classified report. Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, resigned his White House post last October following his indictment on five felony counts.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesmokinggun.com ...
Yeah, he's and did you hear, he shot his lover in a jealous rage and called it a "hunting accident", which was a coverup story devised by the Illuminati who really run Halliburton as a front group to cover up their plot spread their mind-control technology all over the world? Did ya hear? /sarcasm
LOL!!! I love that graphic!!
I'm sorry---I LOVE this President....but this just does not sound good. It makes him look guilty and the MSM is all over this tonight. They will make this into something huge and .......really?? I am not sure how to defend it.
(A) The President is permitted to declassify information. There is no "leaking of classified information" angle but the press is parroting this. The hit and run media doesn't care about "correcting" errors, they want the mileage they get even momentarily out of smears.
(B) The President did not authorize the leaking of Plame's name (as some articles are suggesting).
The media lies. Why try to debate a liar? Facts mean nothing to them. Expose them as habitual liars and you don't need to answer their charges. Tell them to bring facts to the debate.
good bye
Yes, welcome to what is one of the last places where you can escape the daily pablum.
McVey
The meida reports it in this way and the average American hears this and believes it.
The left is overjoyed as their "impeachment" day nears.
It all makes me sick. Now we have to listen to this all over again.
Did he not say he (Bush) had nothing to do with it? Is that really the case? I'm just not sure anymore.
Do I even need to try to refute the media's polls any more? Seriously.
Especially when AP stands for AgitProp....
And when you look at that poll, take an issue like (illegal) "immigration". Some may say that we are heading in the "wrong" direction by fighting it while some may say we are in the "wrong" direction because they see anmesty as inevitable (although unwanted). Same with same sex marriage, etc.
The questions are too vague. They may tally up displeasure with the current state but some may be to the right or to the left of the administation and/or activist courts.
I don't see the press getting any better anytime soon either (because NO, I don't see Democrats returning to power and that is the ONLY thing that puts a smile on the face of the Mass Media).
Meow
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