White House won't challenge leak story

[Pens1566]

Originally posted by: Gaard
Speaking of spouting nonsense...

how 'bout that DeLay?

Yeah, I here he's getting his old ML job back soon. Right Zen?

 

[arsbanned]

Yeah, he's gonna be president of the rotary in shithole, Texas. :thumbsup:

 

[CallMeJoe]

Bush administration logic:

Bush and Cheney, as heads of the executive branch, have classification powers and can declassify material at will. Therefore, if they reveal any classified material or direct it to be revealed, they have de facto declassified the material. No crime.

I do find it laughable that Scott McClennan can say with a straight ace that there was no political motive in Scooter's release of the information. Another hit to W's credibility for all who remember his sincerity in wanting to get to the bottom of this mess.

 

[eilute]

I think GenX has a point. I had read the headline as "Libby: Bush OK'd Plame Leak" and not "Libby: Bush OK'd NIE Leak." This is significantly less incriminating than I thought it was.

 

[db]

President Bush, 9/30/03:
"I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action."

President Bush, 9/30/03:
"If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of. . . . I have told our administration, people in my administration to be fully cooperative. I want to know the truth. If anybody has got any information inside our administration or outside our administration, it would be helpful if they came forward with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true and get on about the business."

President Bush, 10/28/03:
"I'd like to know if somebody in my White House did leak sensitive information."

President Bush, 6/10/04:
Reporter: "Do you stand by your pledge to fire anyone found to have done so?"
President Bush: "Yes. And that's up to the U.S. Attorney to find the facts."

President Bush, 10/28/03:
"I want to know the truth. ... I have no idea whether we'll find out who the leaker is, partially because, in all due respect to your profession, you do a very good job of protecting the leakers."

President Bush, 7/18/05 issue of USA Today: "If someone committed crime, they will no longer work in my administration."

White House Press Secretary, 9/29/03:
"The President has set high standards, the highest of standards for people in his administration. He's made it very clear to people in his administration that he expects them to adhere to the highest standards of conduct. If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration."

White House Press Secretary, 10/7/03:
"Let me answer what the President has said. I speak for the President and I'll talk to you about what he wants . . .If someone leaked classified information, the President wants to know. If someone in this administration leaked classified information, they will no longer be a part of this administration, because that's not the way this White House operates, that's not the way this President expects people in his administration to conduct their business.

 

[dahunan]

He declassified her just like he has no class ... Both him and Cheney are scums...

 

[WHAMPOM]

It just sounds like rewriting history. COME ON! If in a bureaucracy, such as exists in Washington, there no written record of the declassification. It did not happen!

 

[dahunan]

But if we don't take his word for it God will smite us!

 

[eilute]

I'm not sure what specific leaking Libby said bush OK'd.

It is my opinion that the president has the power to declassify what ever he chooses. However, a covert operative could potentially get put in front of a firing squad if they were found out by a foreign government. In this situation it might be considered reckless endangerment. He might also be liable for economic damages of there are any.

 

[zephyrprime]

Bush said he would fire anybody in his administration that leaked information. I guess he's resigning the presidency next week right?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
Bush said he would fire anybody in his administration that leaked information. I guess he's resigning the presidency next week right?

How can it be considered leaked, if it was authorized for release?

 

[1EZduzit]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
Bush said he would fire anybody in his administration that leaked information. I guess he's resigning the presidency next week right?

How can it be considered leaked, if it was authorized for release?

Why did Bush say he was doing everything he could to find the leak in the Whitehouse?

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
Bush said he would fire anybody in his administration that leaked information. I guess he's resigning the presidency next week right?

How can it be considered leaked, if it was authorized for release?

You have check out the details to find your answer. It was leaked because it was leaked at least ten days before it was declassified.

That's why it was leaked. And, to make matters worse, it was leaked by the two highest executive officials in our government, bush and cheney. Two hypocrites who continually excoriate anyone who leaks any information that they deem classified, which, under their "leadership, has become just about every piece of paper or digital data in Washington. For people who value secrecy in a supposed democratic government to the ridiculous extent that these people have taken secrecy, it is all the more an example of their hyporcrisy and their outright lies.

Here you go, from that fat lying pig McLellan's own lips:

The White House faced a barrage of questions yesterday over the timing of President Bush's decision to declassify intelligence that was then leaked to the press by Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.

In a tense briefing, White House spokesman Scott McClellan was asked repeatedly to explain his statement from three years ago that portions of a prewar intelligence document on Iraq were declassified July 18, 2003.

Ten days earlier, Cheney's top aide, I. Lewis Libby, had leaked snippets of intelligence from the document to New York Times reporter Judith Miller to rebut allegations by Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, Libby told prosecutors, according to documents revealed this week.

Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, said he had passed the information to Miller after being told to do so by Cheney, who advised Libby that Bush had authorized it, a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald revealed.

McClellan told reporters July 18, 2003, that the material being released on Iraq "was officially declassified today." Yesterday, McClellan interpreted his own words to mean that's when the material was "officially released."

Asked when it was declassified, McClellan refused to answer, saying the matter was part of Fitzgerald's ongoing CIA leak probe that has resulted in Libby's indictment.

What a lying POS. Little wonder since he works for the planet's chief lying POS.

Get it now?

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