Cheney authorized Libby to leak classified NIE information

[tongodeon]

Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006

Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence in

Comments

[matrygg]

In all seriousness, though (and setting aside the point that it should make a difference), will this actually mean anything in terms of executive branch policies?

[tongodeon]

If Libby flips and provides evidence that can get the policymakers convicted of "high crimes and misdemeanors" thus making them impeachable? Probably.

[matrygg]

Wouldn't the rationalle then be that in a time of war, what the Executive Branch did was excusable?

[drieuxster]

that is the current posture with regards to FISA, and as we are learning from rumsfeld, the process of domestic spying on anyone who does not agree with the administration.

So why should one presume that 'high crimes and misdemeanors' would be relevant given that, as we keep hearing time and again, Congress authorized them to do what ever the current administration wants to blame congress for allowing them to do...

Clearly what it will take is a national intervention where the nation stops enabling these freaks and gets them into the Betty Ford Clinic.

[tongodeon]

If only Clinton had thought to argue that getting a blowjob was somehow part of his Bosnian military strategy.

More At War Than Ever Before

[drieuxster]

Well, actually, if you look at the congressional paper work, you do have to wonder, what exactly IS the big technical distinction between what Clinton had for bombing Iraq, and the current round of bombing Iraq. No need to pick on any of the side shows....

But gosh that way does lead to those deep emotional trauma's. Since, well, Gosh, it appears that Clinton was able to get wood without compromising the National Intelligence Community, OR getting American GI's killed for mere domestic politics.... So maybe we need to help the current CIC learn the value of....

[mmcirvin]

Maybe not, but oh man, is it fun.