Fox News : Bush Authorized Leaks About Iraq

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WASHINGTON — 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.

There was no indication in the filing that either Bush or Cheney authorized I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to disclose Valerie Plame's CIA identity.

Before his indictment, Libby testified to the grand jury investigating the 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.

But the disclosure in documents filed Wednesday means that the president and the vice president put Libby in play as a secret provider of information to reporters about prewar intelligence on Iraq.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190843,00.html

[xiamiam]

1. hell hust froze over..nt

[azurnoir]

Yup and

as it turns ot Jeebus is an icesurfer:evilgrin:

[Libby2]

8. LMAO !! Excellent!!

[marylanddem]

2. Is it just me or is this report as confusing as hell? n/t

[New Earth]

4. is it just me

or do the 2nd and third paragraphs completely contradict eachother??? :shrug:

[marylanddem]

5. yes - is this some kind of mind-f**k or something???

[0007]

6. It ain't you, that's for sure. FAUX nooz is so ambiguous,

that I feel drunk or screwed and have no sense of balance. I'm sorry now that I even attempted to re-read the 2nd & 3rd paragraphs.

[Patsy Stone]

7. Hi, Faye!

From what I read, I'd say that they don't. I think the point is that Bush authorized the leak, but not the specifics of who would leak it. In other words, he didn't say "get Libby out there to spread this around", but instead said "go get this spread around".

[lonestarnot]

3. Brain freeze for sure!