Posted on 04/06/2006 9:12:16 AM PDT by rwfromkansas
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 Valerie Plame leak that Cheney told him to pass on the information and that it was Bush who authorized the leak, 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.
There was no indication in the filing that either Bush or Cheney authorized Libby to disclose Plame's CIA identity.
Agreed. But is Juliet Huddy talking about it?
A synopsis- President Bush declassified information .
Don't expect Matthews or UberOlberMoonbat or the rest of the bats at NBC to understand that concept.
bttt
*** Since this story has been quickly debunked***
And yet, posted just 42 seconds later is MSNBC saying Bush was the leaker.........
Folks, it's up to US to make sure this doesn't get carried away!!
MSNBC is sticking to their junk reporting.
This will be non-stop on the news for the next few days
Most MSM journalistss consider what they do very ethical and objective -- therefore they must be practicing denial in order to be blind to their own demonstrably relentless bias.
Here's the behavioral psychology of it: If MSM organ issues, through sloppiness, a headline or first paragraph that artifically bolsters the Vietnam or Watergate narrative, they get mucho jollies. Their colleagues and the Moveon.org groupies cheer. Issuing a correction (usually not needed) is a mosquito bite. So the sloppy behavior is reinforced.
Chris Matthews will be talking about it full-time for an entire week.
But disclosing information to a journalist under the guise of a leak creates an appearance of impropriety.
LOL, Chrissy started this smear, years ago.
Why do you bother and watch this channel and get aggravated with their constant lies?
The title is being circulated via AP it's just MSNBC putting the extra, extra spin on it.
During this time, while the President was unaware of the role that the Vice President’s Chief of Staff and National Security Adviser had in fact played in disclosing Ms. Wilson’s CIA employment, defendant implored White House officials to have a public statement issued exonerating him. When his initial efforts met with no success, defendant sought the assistance of the Vice President in having his name cleared.
Libby has already been vindicated by Bob Woodward, besides the fact that there wasn't any need for vindication in the first place since there never was a 'leak' of a covert CIA agent. He doesn't need to accuse the President to be exonerated.
The MSM will be caught in yet another lie, and this story will die away for the 20th time because there is absolutely no there there....
See post 16. Are you reading impaired?
It happens too often for anyone to believe that they imagine themselves 'ethical and objective.'
But the average American has caught on, and knows the MSM cannot be trusted, which is why their readership and viewership is in the tank.
On top of being liars, they're stupid, because they won't do what they need to do to get back their audience/readers............just tell the truth.
A liberal will ask "is declassifying the same as leaking"? It will be argued that if information is leaked, it isn't necessarily declassified.
Know your facts before you post your stupid crap. If the President couldn't authorize disclosure of intelligence info, who's the one that can? Congress discloses all the time but they're not supposed to.
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