Take two

May. 2nd, 2006 12:29 pm
ebonlock: (Monarch)
In case you missed it yesterday, I redirect you to my post Uncle Karl's no good, rotten, very bad day, which points to several stories that reveal that Valerie Plame, the CIA agent who was outed by the Bush administration to attack her husband, when she was outed she was working on a project "tracking the proliferation of nuclear weapons material into Iran."

Yes, you read that correctly.

Glenn Greenwald analyzes the Bush apologists' response to this information which basically comes down to, "La,la,la, we can't hear anything you're saying!" Basically what you'd expect, yeah. Still, a fascinating read and definitely worth checking out.
ebonlock: (Tinkerbell)
Papers: Cheney Aide Says Bush OK'd Leak

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.

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

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


Wow, Libby flipped? Damn Fitz is good.

And more:

Mr. Libby is said to have testified that "at first" he rebuffed Mr. Cheney's suggestion to release the information because the estimate was classified. However, according to the vice presidential aide, Mr. Cheney subsequently said he got permission for the release directly from Mr. Bush. "Defendant testified that the vice president later advised him that the president had authorized defendant to disclose the relevant portions of the NIE," the prosecution filing said.


Veeeery interesting...

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