If this "leak" is in the Top Ten of Serious Things...what must the non-serious department look like?
He completely and not suprisingly glossed over the fact that Wilson was lying, that the White House had every right to question his motives and findings. Went right from talking about a guy who discredited the "yellowcake" argument to Bush's desire to get him.
This is how infuriating it is to watch these idiot journalists and democrats gloss over facts to rewrite history in favor of their beloved liberal, anti-Bush views.
I hear all of the time now in NY how people feel that 9/11 happened because Bush became president. It's like a current going through the Dems, and also affects those who are "independent" but are completely susceptible to group-think by reading the newspaper or talking to friends who believe everything the NYT says. We have Hillary, now we'll have Spitzer...
Get used to it. No matter what -- Iran, Iraq, NK, broken borders -- we're in for 2 years of nonstop impeach Bush/Cheney rhetoric.
This is already beyond ridiculous. I suppose the only thing to be admired about the Clinton administration was that it did have a well run rapid response team that fired back when new revelations of wrong doing was reported. They always defended the indefensible and managed to do a decent job of it.
The Bush administration can't even manage to defend the defensible! Haven't they figured it out yet? Not addressing serious charges just because they are ridiculous ISN'T WORKING! Someone in the White House needs to be forcefull, demand respect and in rapid response mode, calling into news rooms and/or appearing for interviews to squelch this crap before it gets overblown and believed by the general non-political public. This isn't rocket science! Once that accusatory snowball starts rolling downhill without someone to stop it, it's too late.
Matthews laid down on the democrat rails and the train ran over him years ago. Now that train is backing up for another pass.
Everyone at NBC has gone off the cliff over this story.
Maybe it has something to do with Tim Russert's dirty hands. He's pretty valuable to NBC.
This isn't about impeaching the President. It's about the mid-term elections and convincing the electorate that the Bush White House is criminal. Matthews knows it's perfectly legal. This is part and parcel with the media onslught designed to sour the electorate for the elections...
Why do this sissy and Mr. Potato Head rate guest spots? Isn't that akin to Letterman having Leno on his show?
Does a President have any restrictions on what kind of information he may declassify? I mean, what if a President during the Cold War had decided to declassify the identities of a number of top agents responsible for spying on the Soviets? Would that be totally legal as well?
I am obviously not comparing that kind of situation to housewife Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson's temper tantrum, but we all know that lefties would see them as the same. It just seems kind of unusual that a President would be able to declassify ANYTHING he wanted.
Does a President have any restrictions on what kind of information he may declassify? I mean, what if a President during the Cold War had decided to declassify the identities of a number of top agents responsible for spying on the Soviets? Would that be totally legal as well?
I am obviously not comparing that kind of situation to housewife Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson's temper tantrum, but we all know that lefties would see them as the same. It just seems kind of unusual that a President would be able to declassify ANYTHING he wanted.
The moron ignores the fact that the president IS the lawfull classifying/declassifying authority. If the president releases information then it is no longer classified.
Clinton screwed himself NOT by his actions in the Oval office, but when he pointed his finger at the camera and lied. Bush did the same thing when he said whoever leaked information (he was talking about this case specifically) would be found out and punished. He had that moment when he could/should have communicated the truth, but he did the political two step, and this will hurt him and the party more than he can believe. He has done this on many occasions, specifically with the information gathered in Iraq, showing that WMDs were believed by the Iraqi generals to be held within their own country, and being shocked when told by Saddam that they did not exist. Tell me why this information was not pointed out, when the President was taking hit after hit during the "Bush Lied, People Died" tour? Just who IS in control in this administration, and why such ineffective leadership?
People forget that Libby IS a Rat. And geez, did the MSM consider for one second that a guy trying to save his own skin could be...LYING?!?
I though it was bad when Carter told about the Stealth fighter, but nothing happened there.
On July 18, 2003, the administration, facing criticism for the intelligence used to justify the war, declassified an eight-page part of the NIE dubbed "key judgments" and conducted a lengthy background briefing with reporters to discuss it.“Key judgments" is the operative word here, the “key judgements” documents were not declassified in July of 2003, they were declassified in October of 2002, six days after the NIE was complete per the following information:
On October 7, 2002 DCI Tenet sent a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee declassifying portions of its new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq.
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."A copy of the Key Judgments document can be found here. Warning: .pdf file.
As usual, the MSM gets it wrong.
An outright lie!
On October 7, 2002 DCI Tenet sent a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee declassifying portions of its new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq.
Arrrgggghhhh!
Nothing has worked for them, but they keep on keeping on......digging their hole deeper and deeper.
(Nini Totenberg on NPR this morning is but one example.)
Now, according to this media, it may be a crime in effect, if not in reality, if an effort was made to show that Wilson's "report" was misinformation by getting to the public the facts and figures to explicitly show this.
The media's take on release of classified material is selective indeed.
President Bush never has and never needed to leak anything. That is because anything he reveals to the public is not a leak. He has, alone with the VP, the authority to reveal anything which included classified material. Matthews is a stone insane nut. RATS that jump onto this bandwagon are proof that their gray matter has rotted.