Cheney Linked To Plame Outing: Will He Be Fired?

'National Journal': Libby Authorized to Leak by Cheney, Others
By Greg Mitchell Published: February 09, 2006 2:30 PM ET

"NEW YORK Lewis “Scooter” Libby testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by his boss, Vice President Dick 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, according to an article posted today by the National Journal."

There we have it. It is a matter of record. Cheney not only shoots his friends, but he outs them as well! Can this be anything but an illegal act? Libby should not be the only one that bites the bullet. Cheney needs to resign and he needs to be prosecuted for violation of national security.

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“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,” Waas writes, according to correspondence recently filed in federal court by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald."

Since Cheney pretty much runs the Bush administration, shouldn't we be investigating whether or not George W. Bush was involved? Even if he wasn't involved, shouldn't Bush resign for not being competent enough to know what the hell is going on in the White House?

“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.”"

Okay, we now know more about the pre-determined road to invasion. It wasn't incompetence or faulty intelligence, it was deliberate effort... in fact a conspiracy.

"According to Waas, “Libby testified to the grand jury that he had been authorized to share parts of the NIE with journalists in the summer of 2003 as part of an effort to rebut charges then being made by former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson that the Bush administration had misrepresented intelligence information to make a public case for war. One of those journalists was former New York Times reporter Judith Miller. She has written that at a July 8, 2003, meeting with Libby he offered some details from the then-classified NIE. Libby apparently is now saying he was authorized to give her that information."