Good post, and again, I like when we try to stay a step ahead of these sick people. You read that an AT & T whistleblower just revealed that the NSA had set up a secret office within AT & T HQ in San Francisco, and that ATT is the subject of a class-action suit, didn’t you?? Let’s hope that all records are forensically retrievable and that BushCo’s mania is exposed for all to see. Nixon was in the little league in comparison!!

What other sources are you monitoring for breaking news of this variety?

Thanks,

Styve

But it does show us the first evidence that the president himself wanted some of this information put out in the media.

thanks for your consideration.

jr, editor-in-chief FUCK BUSH

If nothing else, this portion (page 23) of Fitzgerald’s filing, pretty much puts to bed the nonchalant attitude of the wingers on a president’s perogative to declassify:

Defendant testified that this July 8th meeting [with Judith Miller] was the only time he recalled in his government experience when he disclosed a document to a reporter that was effectively declassified by virtue of the President’s authorization that it be disclosed.

Libby has been in government service since 1981.

Not only that, but this NIE leak was so important to Cheney, that Libby specifically was instructed to give it (page 20):

Defendant further testified that on July 12, 2003, he was specifically directed by the Vice President to speak to the press in place of Cathie Martin (then the communications person for the Vice President) regarding the NIE and Wilson. Defendant was instructed to provide what was for him an extremely rare “on
the record” statement, and to provide “background” and “deep background” statements, and to provide information contained in a document defendant understood to be the cable authored by Mr. Wilson.

You know how he’ll get out of it. There will be NO testimony that the declassification resulted in Plame’s outing. What a small man he is – to leak anything because his lies were not panning out. We now have the Manning memo from January 2003 in which Bush and Blair were trying to figure out a way to draw Saddam into a war because they knew there were no WMDs. Then we have him disclosing the NIE to try and cover his ass.

This latest example of his abuse of power may be the tipping point.

I guess my only hope is that he lied to Fitzgerald in his deposition, but he wasn’t under oath, remember?

Comment by Buford

v. lied, ly·ing, (lng) lies
v. intr.
To present false information with the intention of deceiving.
To convey a false image or impression: Appearances often lie.

v. tr.
To cause to be in a specific condition or affect in a specific way by telling falsehoods: You have lied yourself into trouble.

Failure to protect a nation from 9/11 should be an impeachable offense (given all the warnings from other heads of state.

Illegal wiretapping is an impeachable offense.

Failure to respond to Katrina should be an impeachable offense.

What is it going to take for Republicans to wake up and do the right things for and by this country??? Or are ALL of them to be found under George’s desk doing The Gannon???

This is pretty vital missing confirmation since Progress Report is saying “But, according to the New York Sun, “Cheney specifically got permission for the release directly from Mr. Bush.” The prosecution filing said, “Defendant testified that the vice president later advised him that the president had authorized defendant to disclose the relevant portions of the NIE [National Intelligence Estimate containing Plame's identity].” Huffingtonpost isn’t saying this about Plame, nor is its source at http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/0406nj1.htm. Have the links been disabled due to inaccuracy in the report?

Comment by Wally O’Brien”

The main thing is to just ignore it. You’d be surprised at how little of what’s going on politically is covered in the American MSM when compared to European media. Even if there are no overtly conservative news articles in the MSM, the effect is to skew MSM to the right by not covering stories in detail, which hides a lot of embarerassing details.

After that, there’s a veritable smorgasboard of ways the VRWC handle/spin this. Straw man arguments, changing the subject, impugning the integrity of the investigator(s), accusation of emboldening the enemy, impugning patriotism, on and on, and a popular one: The Big Lie. The bigger the better!