AP >> Report: Bush Authorized CIA Leak

[sabra]

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=78294

Report: Bush Authorized CIA Leak


WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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.

[maddezmom]

1. please don't tell me that it's legal

:argh:

[MUAD_DIB]

2. Will Bush Fire himself. Will he be fired at

with hard hitting questions?


Fire his ass now!

[vi5]

3. It's cute how everyone is all hopeful and stuff....

I'll give it about 6 hours before the media gets their RNC talking points and starts with the "Well this is similar to what (Clinton/Carter/Kennedy) did when they......." or the "The other side to this story is......" and this story goes the way they all do into craptacular He said/He said BS that causes people to tune it all out.

[huskerlaw]

4. Except that it doesn't say that

People, please read the document before you get all excited.

It says that Bush authorized Libby to talk to Miller about the contents of a newly declassified document. During that conversation Libby mentioned to Miller that Wilson's wife was a CIA agent. There is NOTHING in the court papers linking the document that Bush declassified with the information Libby had about Plame. Nothing.

[AuntiBush]

5. It Was All Over CNN and MSNBC Right Now!

Confused. If Libby admitted Cheney, now Bush told him it was "ok" to publicize Plame, after Bush said he would fire anyone that leaked from his administration, as just reiterated on MSNBC and CNN, shouldn't Bush be giving himself the pink slip, right about now?

Just sayin'

[SpiralHawk]

6. Bush is the Traitor in Chief

Impeach him.

[pacalo]

7. I'm confused...

What's the difference between:

"Cheney told (Libby) to pass on the information" & "it was Bush who authorized the leak"

and

"there was no indication in the filing that either Bush or Cheney authorized Libby to disclose Plame's CIA identity.

[stop the bleeding]

8. See here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x860127

[Igel]

9. The press has been lobbing two leaks around for

some time. (1) Plame's name/status, and (2) the contents of an NIE document that was produced in early 2003, the contents leaked in early 7/2003, and which was officially released in mid7/2003.

*, it's claimed, authorized the release of the contents of the NIE document some 10 days before the document itself was formally released to the media. This document did not contain information about Plame.

Your mistake was assuming "the leak" could refer exclusively to the Plame leak, when the context says it refers to the NIE leak.

That both leaks were committed by the same person at a single lunch meeting with a single reporter helps to merge what are, in fact, two different incidents.

[stop the bleeding]

11. Plame's covert status was laced all through the NEI along with

the WMD/Iraq Intel, also when you read the Court Docs from yesterday's filing you can see that this information was leaked to help bolster the WH's rebuttal against Wilson's assertions of Pre-War data.

Repeat for clarity this is not 2 separate incidents or leaks - they are one in the same.

Links to all 3 sets of PDF's here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x860418

[pacalo]

12. I read your excellent explanation at the link you gave me...

You made the very point that I was missing. I haven't been following the media's spin on this, so I wasn't aware about the "there's a significant difference between the Plame leak/NIE leak."

As you explained, the NIE information in question can't stand alone without involving Valerie Plame's name or status at the CIA.

Thanks!

[Igel]

13. Except that the CIA declassified and released the NIE

in question before Novak's article, a mere 10 days after the Libby/Miller conversation.

If it's impossible not to tease out Plame's identity from the NIE, then there's a problem in the CIA's declassification and publishing of the document.

[OzarkDem]

10. WaPo & WSJ not reporting the story

instead, they're both touting the same story - something about the judge not letting Fitz argue aspects of the Plame leak case in secret because of top secret info.

:wtf:

I guess they're in denial.

[Trevelyan]

14. See FireDogLake.com for a former prosecutor's take on the Libby statement

and the Fitzgerald response.

"Oh Happy Day! But a happy day that enrages me from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. I am so completely disgusted with this preznit– he will sacrifice our national security for his murderous ambitions. He caused this family (Valerie Plame-Wilson) much grief indeed and I feel sorry for them.

What bitter, bitter irony that while they were lying about WD he ruined a devoted patriotic servant’s network that actually was working against real WMD. High crimes and misdemeanors indeed– I think a Constitutional impeachment is in order. Declassification of the NIE authorized by the two top goons that led to a horrific debacle– this has a stench about it that will take much sunlight to disinfect. Go Fitz and thank you Christy."

="I think he was certainly involved, but how do you get bush on the stand? Alone. With lots of light. No cute puppies roaming around. No helicopters in the background. Just him.

And the eyes of America.

Oh man…oh man."

="Ok…how do you convene an impeachment court? Congress right?

Now where is that RNC ad about impeachment again?"