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EFLtrainer
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 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject: Libby: White House 'Superiors' OK'd Leaks |
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Libby: White House 'Superiors' OK'd Leaks By TONI LOCY, Associated Press Writer
20 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that his superiors authorized him to give secret information to reporters as part of the Bush administration's defense of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq, according to court papers.
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in documents filed last month that he plans to introduce evidence that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, disclosed to reporters the contents of a classified National Intelligence Estimate in the summer of 2003.
The NIE is a report prepared by the head of the nation's intelligence operations for high-level government officials, up to and including the president. Portions of NIEs are sometimes declassified and made public. It is unclear whether that happened in this instance.
In a Jan. 23 letter to Libby's lawyers, Fitzgerald said Libby also testified before the grand jury that he caused at least one other government official to discuss an intelligence estimate with reporters in July 2003.
"We also note that it is our understanding that Mr. Libby testified that he was authorized to disclose information about the NIE to the press by his superiors," Fitzgerald wrote. |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060210/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_5;_ylt=AijAob3peIENazjAUT6Vb0Yb.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmYw-- |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm going to go lie down in the dark for a few hours with a cold compress over my eyes to recover from the shock. |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| I'm going to go lie down in the dark for a few hours with a cold compress over my eyes to recover from the shock. |
Ha! |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| "Superiors"? Names, please. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| The Lemon wrote: |
| "Superiors"? Names, please. |
Is Alaska really a part of Jesusland? |
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The Lemon
Joined: 11 Jan 2003
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Smoking gun. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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I'd make some tweaks to the map if I could, like extending J-Land to Alberta.
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Back in the 1970s, National Lampoon magazine published a "map" of the American South, which included not only the South itself but all those regions which could also be considered "culturally southern". As such, the map extended upward to include Calgary. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Personally, it would be nice to see that map happen, except I would be afraid Jesusland would then invade the United States of Canada. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| The Lemon wrote: |
| "Superiors"? Names, please. |
The guy was Dick Cheney's immediate assistant. I'm thinking he had only two "superiors," the Veep and the Prez.
Kuros :
Yep. |
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