How do you go from, "Oh, I had permission from the executive branch to leak certain documents," to, "Oh, wait! Neither Bush nor Cheney gave their permission, and they certainly did not tell me to leak about CIA agents! Sorry about that," and not expect millions of people to stare in confusion?
You either got permission or not. Unless you pretend that Karl Rove = executive branch, and I don't think you're that stupid.
Former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, in documents filed late last night in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said Bush and Cheney only authorized him to disclose once-classified details from a National Intelligence Estimate paper that they believed supported the president's claims that Iraq was attempting to buy nuclear material in Niger.
Libby has been indicted on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to FBI investigators about whether anyone in the administration revealed the identity of former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, in an April 5 court filing, tied Bush for the first time to an attempt to counter critics of the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, suggesting he used Libby to funnel information to reporters.
Any argument by the government that the case involves only Libby and Cheney's office "is a fairy tale," said the 26-page document filed by Libby's lawyers. "Mr. Libby's actions were authorized at the highest levels of the executive branch."
Libby's attorneys made clear they intend to call as a witness Karl Rove, Bush's top political adviser, to testify "regarding Mr. Libby's conversations with Mr. Rove concerning reporters' inquiries about Ms. Wilson."
For some strange reason, I have this feeling that we aren't going to get to the truth until 2009 has come and gone.
Tags: [Scooter Libby], [Bush], [Cheney], [Patrick Fitzgerald], [Valerie Plame Wilson leak], [flip-flop], [Bush and Cheney supposedly have nothing to do with the leak now]
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