Posted on 04/06/2006 5:18:57 AM PDT by Laverne
A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded "National Intelligence Estimate" on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of President Bush, according to a new court filing from the special prosecutor in the case. The court papers from the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, do not suggest that Mr. Bush violated any law or rule. However, the new disclosure could be awkward for the president because it places him, for the first time, directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was provided to a reporter. Mr. Fitzgerald's inquiry initially focused on the alleged leak, which occurred after a former ambassador who is Ms. Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times questioning the accuracy of statements Mr. Bush made about Iraq's nuclear procurement efforts in Africa.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Ping
Could have just as easily come from the NYT. Any ex Times reporters at the Sun? Maybe the Times is laying low in this subject because of their involovement and are feeding material to the Sun.
Bump for later.
Who is putting out Libby's grand jury testimony?
Pinz
FYI.....Libby ping material?
Bottom line. The rest appears to be a flurry of an attempt to bash Bush.
Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure provide that the prosecutor, grand jurors, and the grand jury stenographer are prohibited from disclosing what happened before the grand jury, unless ordered to do so in a judicial proceeding. Witnesses are not sworn to secrecy.
OK so if I read this right: Bush is a bad guy for not giving the Americans information on the war. Now he is a bad guy for giving Americans information on the war. Guess the Dims are right.......George is just a bad guy...this proves it.
Key Judgments Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs
Another article:
A 25-page version of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was released in October 2002. It made clear-cut statements about Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons capabilities in two pages of "Key Judgments."
Even the most vocal critics (Sen. Carl Levin) admit it:
On October 7, 2002 DCI Tenet sent a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee declassifying portions of its new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq.
In other words, Fitz is full of it.
Virginia O'Hanlon's papa told her, "If you see it in the Sun, it's so," but that was back in the 1890s.
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