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"Harry Hope" |
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09 Feb 2006 04:18:33 PM |
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Traitor Cheney 'Authorized' Traitor Libby to Leak Classified Information |
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0209nj1.htm
Cheney 'Authorized' Libby to Leak Classified Information
By Murray Waas, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006
Vice President ***** 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 making the case to go
to war with Iraq, according to attorneys familiar with the matter, and
to court records.
According to sources with firsthand knowledge, Cheney authorized Libby
to release additional classified information, including details of the
NIE, to defend the administration's use of prewar intelligence in
making the case for war.
Libby specifically claimed that in one instance he had been authorized
to divulge portions of a then-still highly classified National
Intelligence Estimate regarding Saddam Hussein's purported efforts to
develop nuclear weapons, according to correspondence recently filed in
federal court by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald.
Beyond what was stated in the court paper, say people with firsthand
knowledge of the matter, Libby also indicated what he will offer as a
broad defense during his upcoming criminal trial:
that Vice President Cheney and other senior Bush administration
officials had earlier encouraged and authorized him to share
classified information with journalists to build public support for
going to war.
Later, after the war began in 2003, Cheney authorized Libby to release
additional classified information, including details of the NIE, to
defend the administration's use of prewar intelligence in making the
case for war.
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Makes one almost believe that Osama bin Laden pays Tricky Dicky Cheney
Harry
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| User: "DickpullmyCheney" |
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| Title: Re: Traitor Cheney 'Authorized' Traitor Libby to Leak Classified Information |
09 Feb 2006 04:53:06 PM |
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On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:18:33 -0800, Harry Hope wrote
(in message <3ufnu1hlicptdartg97ao63aij8k5b3til@4ax.com>):
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0209nj1.htm
Cheney 'Authorized' Libby to Leak Classified Information
Tip of the iceberg...
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Makes one almost believe that Osama bin Laden pays Tricky Dicky Cheney
Harry
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Hang 'Em High For A Few Fistful Of Dollars More - The Good, The Bad & The
RepUgly :)
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| User: "Billy" |
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| Title: Re: Traitor Cheney 'Authorized' Traitor Libby to Leak Classified Information |
09 Feb 2006 08:22:32 PM |
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"DickffpullmyffCheney" <Go-*****-Yourself@VP-gatherings.com> wrote in message
news:HvSdnR4PCZBPWnbeRVn-jA@giganews.com...
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:18:33 -0800, Harry Hope wrote
(in message <3ufnu1hlicptdartg97ao63aij8k5b3til@4ax.com>):
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0209nj1.htm
Cheney 'Authorized' Libby to Leak Classified Information
Tip of the iceberg...
Wonder if the Vice president has the authority to declassify a document? Me
thinks , Yes.
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| User: "gaffo" |
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| Title: Re: Traitor Cheney 'Authorized' Traitor Libby to Leak Classified Information |
11 Feb 2006 10:58:55 AM |
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Billy wrote:
"DickffpullmyffCheney" <Go-*****-Yourself@VP-gatherings.com> wrote in
message news:HvSdnR4PCZBPWnbeRVn-jA@giganews.com...
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:18:33 -0800, Harry Hope wrote
(in message <3ufnu1hlicptdartg97ao63aij8k5b3til@4ax.com>):
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0209nj1.htm
Cheney 'Authorized' Libby to Leak Classified Information
Tip of the iceberg...
Wonder if the Vice president has the authority to declassify a
document? Me thinks , Yes.
only if by the authority of the pResident
oh forget, Cheney is the President.
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| User: "Rich Travsky " |
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| Title: Re: Traitor Cheney 'Authorized' Traitor Libby to Leak ClassifiedInformation |
12 Feb 2006 10:14:27 PM |
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Billy wrote:
"DickffpullmyffCheney" <Go-*****-Yourself@VP-gatherings.com> wrote in message
news:HvSdnR4PCZBPWnbeRVn-jA@giganews.com...
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:18:33 -0800, Harry Hope wrote
(in message <3ufnu1hlicptdartg97ao63aij8k5b3til@4ax.com>):
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0209nj1.htm
Cheney 'Authorized' Libby to Leak Classified Information
Tip of the iceberg...
Wonder if the Vice president has the authority to declassify a document? Me
thinks , Yes.
Not necessarily.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113962394427971509-SxvKTMRwU5_LYrIOE3ZlhHfnkfw_20060313.html?mod=tff_article
...
Mr. Cheney, in his role as second-in-command of the country, has significant leeway,
albeit not as much as the president, to declassify information.
...
"The president can declassify anything," William Banks, a Syracuse University law
professor and expert on national-security law, said. While the president would have
to amend his own executive order governing secrets in order to declassify something
on the fly, that can be accomplished very informally, even orally and in secret. "He
could do it on a cocktail napkin," Mr. Banks said.
The vice president's authority to declassify is less clear. Some legal scholars
believe that Mr. Cheney would share in the president's authority, as an elected
official. Alternatively, the president could delegate his declassification authority
to the vice president.
"The classification system is rooted for the most part not in statute but in executive
order. ...In the case of the NIE, the White House was free to declassify it at a
moment's notice," said Steven Aftergood, director of the project on government secrecy
at the Federation of American Scientists, which favors increased public access to
government information.
...
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| User: "Billy" |
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| Title: Re: Traitor Cheney 'Authorized' Traitor Libby to Leak Classified Information |
12 Feb 2006 10:58:34 PM |
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"Rich Travsky" <" traRvEsky"@hotmMOVEail.com> wrote in message
news:43F007A3.A69FFB14@hotmMOVEail.com...
Billy wrote:
"DickffpullmyffCheney" <Go-*****-Yourself@VP-gatherings.com> wrote in
message
news:HvSdnR4PCZBPWnbeRVn-jA@giganews.com...
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:18:33 -0800, Harry Hope wrote
(in message <3ufnu1hlicptdartg97ao63aij8k5b3til@4ax.com>):
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0209nj1.htm
Cheney 'Authorized' Libby to Leak Classified Information
Tip of the iceberg...
Wonder if the Vice president has the authority to declassify a document?
Me
thinks , Yes.
Not necessarily.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113962394427971509-SxvKTMRwU5_LYrIOE3ZlhHfnkfw_20060313.html?mod=tff_article
...
Mr. Cheney, in his role as second-in-command of the country, has
significant leeway,
albeit not as much as the president, to declassify information.
...
"The president can declassify anything," William Banks, a Syracuse
University law
professor and expert on national-security law, said. While the president
would have
to amend his own executive order governing secrets in order to declassify
something
on the fly, that can be accomplished very informally, even orally and in
secret. "He
could do it on a cocktail napkin," Mr. Banks said.
The vice president's authority to declassify is less clear. Some legal
scholars
believe that Mr. Cheney would share in the president's authority, as an
elected
official. Alternatively, the president could delegate his declassification
authority
to the vice president.
"The classification system is rooted for the most part not in statute but
in executive
order. ...In the case of the NIE, the White House was free to declassify
it at a
moment's notice," said Steven Aftergood, director of the project on
government secrecy
at the Federation of American Scientists, which favors increased public
access to
government information.
So that's a firm, maybe.
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