Hmmm, will this be enough?
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney’s former top aide told prosecutors that 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 CIA leak that Cheney told him to pass on information and that it was Bush who authorized the disclosure of information to reporters about prewar intelligence on Iraq.
The authorization came as the Bush administration faced mounting criticism about its failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the main reason the president and his aides had given for going to war.
Libby’s participation in a critical conversation with Miller on July 8, 2003, “occurred only after the vice president advised defendant that the president specifically had authorized defendant to disclose certain information in the National Intelligence Estimate,” the papers by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald stated. The filing did not specify the “certain information.”
'Unique' circumstances“Defendant testified that the circumstances of his conversation with reporter Miller — getting approval from the president through the vice president to discuss material that would be classified but for that approval — were unique in his recollection,” the papers added.
Libby is asking for voluminous amounts of classified information from the government in order to defend himself against five counts of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI in the Plame affair.
He is accused of making false statements about how he learned of Plame’s CIA employment and what he told reporters about it.
Her CIA status was publicly disclosed eight days after her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, accused the Bush administration of twisting prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat from weapons of mass destruction.
So, not only does Bushie authorize illegal wire taps on American citizens, now he's authorizing the disclosure of classified information to the media. Not to mention starting a war based on lies, criminal negligence in helping those poor people in New Orleans after Katrina struck, ensuring that his rich friends get richer through obscene tax breaks at the expense of the middle class, doing nothing to stop the explosion of the national debt, etc, etc, etc....
I wonder, what will it take to open to the eyes of those supporting him blinded by thier partisanship?
POLT = listening to "Bend And Break" by Keane
If he's not careful, hemight break a sweat...or a nail. - Ted, Queer As Folk
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