From: "Rich Gauszka" 


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1813491&page=2
Sept. 30, 2003: Bush : "There are too many leaks of classified
information in Washington. . And if there's a leak out of the
administration, I want to know who it is. And if a person violated the law,
the person will be taken care of."



So, the White House is now bracing itself for charges of hypocrisy.

"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message news:4435757f$1{at}w3....
> If this can be shown then.....hey they're all straight up tell it like
> it is guyz right?
>
> A bit like the gambinos.
>
> Adam
>
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0406061libby1.html
>>
>> PRIL 6--A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal
>> grand
>> jury that President George W. Bush authorized him to leak information
>> from a
>> classified intelligence report to a New York Times reporter. Details of
>> I.
>> Lewis "Scooter" Libby's testimony were included in a
court filing made
>> yesterday by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who is prosecuting Libby
>> for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements in
>> connection with the probe into the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's
>> identity. According to Fitzgerald's filing, an excerpt of which you'll
>> find
>> below, Libby, 55, testified in 2003 that he provided reporter Judith
>> Miller
>> with information from a classified National Intelligence Estimate after
>> being told by Cheney that Bush "specifically had
authorized" him to
>> "disclose certain information in the NIE." Libby also
testified that
>> Cheney
>> specifically directed him to speak to other reporters about information
>> in
>> the classified NIE (which addressed Iraq's purported weapons of mass
>> destruction programs) as well as a cable authored by Plame's husband,
>> former
>> ambassador Joseph Wilson. The leaking of the classified material was
>> apparently done in an effort to counter claims made by Wilson regarding
>> the
>> White House's justification for invading Iraq. The Fitzgerald filing also
>> notes that Libby told grand jurors that he conferred with David
>> Addington,
>> Cheney's counsel, about the leak directive and that Addington told him
>> "that
>> Presidential authorization to publicly disclose a document amounted to a
>> declassification of the document." While both Bush and Cheney have been
>> interviewed by Fitzgerald, it is unknown whether they confirmed or
>> disputed
>> Libby's assertion that he was authorized to disclose findings in
>> classified
>> reports. Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, resigned his White House
>> post last October following his indictment on five felony counts. (7
>> pages)
>>
>> Plamegate aficionados: Click here for PDF of entire 39-page Fitzgerald
>> filing
>>
>>

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