Ken,
_Relatively credible_ Do you find Fox credible? ;-{)}
Kendall
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From: ken barber [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Fri 4/7/2006 8:41 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: article...
you find the NY Times credible? oh, well...
--- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is an article from the New York Times on I.
> Lewis (Scooter) Libby's
> testimony. I tend to look at the NY Times as a
> relatively credible
> source, and the way this reads, there's enough room
> to shift blame that
> it'd be tough to prove who authorized anything that
> happened even if
> Libby is telling the truth.
>
> As someone who often feels like the "lone liberal
> voice" in Wyoming, I'd
> hoped for something clearer.
>
> Kendall
>
> In Court Filings, Cheney Aide Says Bush Approved
> Leak
> By DAVID JOHNSTON and DAVID E. SANGER
> New York Times
>
> Published: April 6, 2006
>
> WASHINGTON, April 6 - President Bush authorized Vice
> President Dick
> Cheney in July 2003 to permit Mr. Cheney's chief of
> staff, I. Lewis
> Libby Jr., to leak to a reporter key portions of a
> classified prewar
> intelligence estimate on Iraq, according to Mr.
> Libby's grand jury
> testimony disclosed in court papers filed late
> Wednesday.
>
> The court filing provided the first indication that
> Mr. Bush, who has
> long assailed leaks of classified information as a
> national security
> threat, played a direct role in the disclosure of
> the intelligence
> report on Iraq and was also involved in the swirl of
> events leading up
> to the disclosure of the identity of an undercover
> C.I.A. officer.
>
> The grand jury testimony by Mr. Libby, who has been
> charged with perjury
> and obstruction in the C.I.A. leak case, is said by
> prosecutors to
> indicate that Mr. Cheney obtained explicit approval
> from Mr. Bush to
> permit Mr. Libby to divulge portions of a National
> Intelligence Estimate
> regarding Iraq's efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
>
> The disclosure prompted Democrats to demand that the
> White House be
> forthcoming about Mr. Bush's role. Senator Harry
> Reid of Nevada, the
> Democratic leader, released a statement saying: "In
> light of today's
> shocking revelation, President Bush must fully
> disclose his
> participation in the selective leaking of classified
> information. The
> American people must know the truth."
>
> The court filing, which was first reported this
> morning on the New York
> Sun Web site, said that Mr. Libby testified that the
> "Vice President
> advised defendant that the President had authorized
> defendant to
> disclose certain information in the N.I.E." The
> prosecutors said that
> Mr. Libby testified that he recalled the
> circumstances "getting approval
> from the President through the Vice President to
> discuss material that
> would be classified but for that approval - were
> unique in his
> recollection."
>
> The leak was intended, the court papers suggested,
> as a rebuttal to the
> Op-Ed article published in The New York Times on
> July 6, by Joseph C.
> Wilson IV, a former ambassador, who wrote that he
> had traveled to Africa
> in 2002 after Mr. Cheney had raised questions about
> possible nuclear
> purchases. Mr. Wilson wrote that he concluded it was
> "highly doubtful"
> that Iraq had sought to purchase nuclear fuel from
> Niger.
>
> At Mr. Cheney's office, the Op-Ed article was viewed
> "as a direct attack
> on credibility of the Vice President (and the
> President) on a matter of
> signal importance: the rationale for the war in
> Iraq," according to the
> court papers.
>
> The presidential authorization was provided, the
> court papers said, in
> advance of a meeting on July 8, 2003 between Mr.
> Libby and Judith
> Miller, then a reporter for the New York Times. Mr.
> Libby brought a
> brief abstract of the N.I.E.'s key judgments to the
> meeting with Ms.
> Miller in the lobby of the St. Regis Hotel about two
> blocks from the
> White House.
>
> Mr. Libby testified, the prosecutors said, that he
> was "specifically
> authorized in advance of the meeting to disclose the
> key judgments of
> the classified N.I.E. to Miller on that occasion
> because it was thought
> that the N.I.E. was 'pretty definitive' against what
> Ambassador Wilson
> had said and that the Vice President thought that it
> was 'very
> important' for the key judgments of the N.I.E. to
> come out."
>
> The court filing said that Mr. Libby said "he
> understood that that was
> to tell Ms. Miller, among other things, that "a key
> judgment of the
> N.I.E. held that Iraq was 'vigorously trying to
> procure' uranium." Mr.
> Libby, the prosecutors, said, testified that the
> meeting with Ms. Miller
> was the "only time he recalled in his government
> experience when he
> disclosed a document to a reporter that was
> effectively declassified by
> virtue of the President's authorization that it be
> disclosed."
>
> Mr. Libby testified that he first told Mr. Cheney
> that he could not have
> such a conversation with Ms. Miller because the
> intelligence estimate on
> Iraq was classified. Mr. Libby testified that Mr.
> Cheney later told him
> that Mr. Bush had authorized the release of
> "relevant portions."
>
> In addition, Mr. Libby told the grand jury that he
> also spoke with David
> Addington, then a lawyer for Mr. Cheney whom Mr.
> Libby regarded as an
> expert on national security law. "Mr. Addington
> opined that Presidential
> authorization to publicly disclose a document
> amounted to
> declassification of the document."
>
> Mr. Libby testified that at the meeting he did not
> discuss Mr. Wilson's
> wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, the C.I.A. officer at
> the center of the leak
> inquiry, because "he had forgotten by that time that
> he learned about
> Ms. Wilson's C.I.A. employment a month earlier from
> the Vice President."
>
> Ms. Miller in her Oct. 16, 2005, account of the
> meeting said that her
> notes showed that the two had discussed Mr. Wilson's
> wife, who,
> according to her notes, worked in a unit of the
> C.I.A. that is engaged
> in the intelligence assessments of unconventional
> weapons.
>
> Ms. Miller said that Mr. Libby discussed a
> chronology of what she said
> he described as "credible evidence" of Iraq's
> efforts to acquire
> uranium. She made no reference to whether Mr. Libby
> referred to any
> material as derived from the intelligence estimate,
> but said that he
> alluded to two reports, one in 1999 and another in
> 2002, that seemed to
> support the contention that Iraq was interested in
> obtain uranium.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Collis [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:04 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: article...
>
>
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