sometimes yes, sometimes no. jason blair is all i have
to say for the times. it is a company full of jason
blairs. 

--- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Ken,
>  
> _Relatively credible_  Do you find Fox credible? 
> ;-{)}
>  
> Kendall
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> 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.
> 
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