[conserv13]

I'd like to see this confirmed by other sources.

[kms61]

the lefty bloggers are having multiple orgasms over this.

[Let's Roll]

And if he didn't authorize it, he should have ... similar to if it's not true, it should be.

[You Dirty Rats]

testified to a federal grand jury ... according to attorneys familiar with the matter

These attorneys (or this report) are either lying or guilty of a felony by disclosing secret grand jury testimony. In either case, though, the story can't be disproven because of the same secrecy.

In other words, this is a cowardly attack on the White House -- not the first time and won't be the last.

[shield]

LOL...more crapola coming from the left...wonder why no one is reporting on Rockefeller...who is #1 in the investigation of leaks that's actually done harm to this country and our troops.

[Political Junkie Too]

...that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information...

Question: Who decides what is classified and what is not? If Cheney is Vice-President, can't he decide on his own authority to release classified information? And what about other White House "superiors" to Libby? Who's that? Cheney? Bush? Rove?

Doesn't President Bush get to decide what's classified and what is not, or is there someone more superior than him?

-PJ

[longtermmemmory]

this is more about jury tampering than reality.

The Mediots want to turn libby into a proxie for the VP and Pres.

Mathews will pick this up, and yes he is that stupid.

[kcvl]

Don't believe anything Murray Waas writes!

Clinton apologist, Murray Waas, found his fame in the mainstream media for finding a psychic in Arkansas whose son had seen money given to Whitewater witness David Hale.

Murray Waas has been doing opposition research for the Clinton administration for years which included research into the background of Kenneth Starr and into the background of Clinton critics.

Joe Conason, Sidney Blumenthal, Murray Waas and James Carville worked to trash anyone who got in the Clintons way. Don't believe anything he says!

[balch3]

Can the funding for this witchhunt be pulled by the Administration? It's long since gotten out of control. When it first started, people here were praising Fitzgerald to high heaven. I had my doubts, and it's turning out to be right. Fitzgerald is just another RAT hack prosecutor.

[Kimberly GG]

Flipping through channels, I just saw MacAuliff on CNN re-state, as if a fact, that Cheney told Libby to........(as stated in the article)

[Freee-dame]

According to sources with firsthand knowledge

Since "sources close to the White House" could be two reporters walking down Pennsylvania Avenue, I wonder what this could mean?

[Howlin]

Scooter Ping!

[Mike Darancette]

According to sources with firsthand knowledge,

Logical Fallacy: Appeal to anonymous sources.

Libby also indicated what he will offer as a broad defense during his upcoming criminal trial: that Vice President Cheney and other senior Bush administration officials had earlier encouraged and authorized him to share classified information with journalists to build public support for going to war.

I guess Libby is going to testify in his own defense how else would this get into testimony. Secondly I don't see how this would be relevant to the charges unless Cheney told Libby to lie.

[BamaDi]

Libby's atty has adamently denied this....

[frankjr]

As far as the reliability of Waas, in his article he states:

"Beyond what was stated in the court paper, say people with firsthand knowledge of the matter, Libby also indicated what he will offer as a broad defense during his upcoming criminal trial: that Vice President Cheney and other senior Bush administration officials had earlier encouraged and authorized him to share classified information with journalists to build public support for going to war."

Just now on Fox News, they read a statement from Libby's defense team that said they have NO intention of raising as a defense anything about VP authorization to leak classified information. They added no one on their team has discussed the potential defenses with anyone outside of among themselves.

Come on Murray, quit making shi...stuff up.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"according to attorneys familiar with the matter," = "democrat attorneys in Fitzgerald's office with connections to/with/under the (liberal/repubilican-baiting) special prosecutor."

[FreeAtlanta]

Not only that, but isn't the Vice President and President allowed to declassify materials? If they can't do it, who can?

Ok, now it's time for all you Clinton bashers (me too) to start joking about that is exactly what Clinton did when he gave missle and nuclear secrets to the Chinese.

[BIGLOOK]

Hey Dave,
This sounds like the briefing Colin Powell gave before the UN which was televised prior to Iraqi Freedom campaign.

New blurb on a rerun.

[rvoitier]

Murray Waas writes for the American Prospect. 'nuff said about him.

Imo, this is a coordinated attack to revive the Libby story. Now the Lame Stream Media can broadcast it for days and gives the weekend talk shows their headlines.

Gotta give it to the commies; one thing they're good at and it's propaganda.

[zook]

I don't see anything here about super duper secret agent Plame. As far as I'm concerned, the Pres. being our chief exec. and the VP working under his authority, there's a good chance Cheney had the authority to leak whatever he wanted to.

[daybreakcoming]

according to attorneys familiar with the matter, and to court records.

Yah yah - we know about unnamed attorneys "familiar" and unnamed sources, don't we? But court records? The records of Libby's testimony have been released? I feel so out of the loop here.