Comments | tongodeon: Cheney leaked Plame's covert identity NIE estimates on purpose.

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Cheney leaked Plame's covert identity NIE estimates on purpose.

Feb 16, 2006 10:41

Last week Scooter Libby said he had orders to leak Valerie Plame's covert identity directly from the Vice President. Today Cheney responded to the accusation by announcing that he has the power to declassify sensitive government information based on an executive order ( Read more... )

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dataghost13 February 16 2006, 21:14:43 UTC

I like that phrase -- "intentional distortion of intelligence"...great way to say look, we're gonna act stupid on purpose...

tongodeon February 16 2006, 22:30:42 UTC

I hate getting into semantic arguments. "Bush lied." "No he didn't, Bush believed what he was saying even if it wasn't true."

Bush intentionally molded correct intelligence which did not support a war into false intelligence which did support a war.

dataghost13 February 16 2006, 22:37:00 UTC

Yeah. Like I said, act stupid on purpose...don't worry...we be on the same page!!

But Congress Is To Blame! drieuxster February 16 2006, 23:42:54 UTC

They said it was OK for the president to dress up like that, it was a part of the no child left behind bill, and in this case we got merely the left behind and not the whole child....

Re: But Congress Is To Blame! dataghost13 February 17 2006, 00:46:39 UTC

I wasn't even aware that there were any children behind Bill in the first place...and even if there were...do you really think that an Act of Congress is needed in order to deal with the problem? Hell, I wasn't even aware that Monica Lewinski was even pregnant while she worked at the White House...Bill, next time...take your kids with you when you leave office...

Re: But Congress Is To Blame! drieuxster February 17 2006, 01:54:04 UTC

Right Idea, Wrong Bill - that was Bill The Cat who is to blame for leaving the Behind in the Bill.

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