Libby: Bush Authorized Plamegate Leak, And Zots Against Civilians

The Smoking Gun ^ | 4/5/2006 | The Smoking Gun

[JewishRighter]

Yeah, he's and did you hear, he shot his lover in a jealous rage and called it a "hunting accident", which was a coverup story devised by the Illuminati who really run Halliburton as a front group to cover up their plot spread their mind-control technology all over the world? Did ya hear? /sarcasm

[Thunder90]

[FreedomNeocon]

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[StarCMC]

LOL!!! I love that graphic!!

[amutr22]

I'm sorry---I LOVE this President....but this just does not sound good. It makes him look guilty and the MSM is all over this tonight. They will make this into something huge and .......really?? I am not sure how to defend it.

[weegee]

(A) The President is permitted to declassify information. There is no "leaking of classified information" angle but the press is parroting this. The hit and run media doesn't care about "correcting" errors, they want the mileage they get even momentarily out of smears.

(B) The President did not authorize the leaking of Plame's name (as some articles are suggesting).

The media lies. Why try to debate a liar? Facts mean nothing to them. Expose them as habitual liars and you don't need to answer their charges. Tell them to bring facts to the debate.

[PilloryHillary]

good bye

[mcvey]

Yes, welcome to what is one of the last places where you can escape the daily pablum.

McVey

[JRios1968]

[mcvey]

Well, I agree that this really seems to be much ado about nothing. After I read the filing, it is clear that it was not Plame's name that the declassification involved, but rather the data from the NIE.

The MSM may try to make this something it is not and most Americans do not have the resources one gets by belonging to FR to check such things out.

I gather we are in full indignation mode out on the news networks. We should not underestimate the damage that this could do to the President--since the Demrats and their MSM allies have already made him a target of opportunity.

McVey

[amutr22]

The meida reports it in this way and the average American hears this and believes it.
The left is overjoyed as their "impeachment" day nears.

It all makes me sick. Now we have to listen to this all over again.

Did he not say he (Bush) had nothing to do with it? Is that really the case? I'm just not sure anymore.

[TheForceOfOne]

Constitutionally, the authority to declare documents "classified" resides with the president. So, under the terms of an executive order first drafted in 1982, he can declassify a document merely by declaring it unclassified.

The language of the executive order reads as follows: "Information shall be declassified or downgraded by the official who authorized the original classification, if that official is still serving in the same position . . . [or] a supervisory official." In the executive branch, the president is the ultimate "supervisory official."

[weegee]

I saw some liberal post this on an apolitical forum. She doesn't typically spout the DNC talking points much but will take time to gloat now and then (and no she does not know my politics). Here proclaiming the GOP is "dead".

Do I even need to try to refute the media's polls any more? Seriously.

Especially when AP stands for AgitProp....

[weegee]

And when you look at that poll, take an issue like (illegal) "immigration". Some may say that we are heading in the "wrong" direction by fighting it while some may say we are in the "wrong" direction because they see anmesty as inevitable (although unwanted). Same with same sex marriage, etc.

The questions are too vague. They may tally up displeasure with the current state but some may be to the right or to the left of the administation and/or activist courts.

I don't see the press getting any better anytime soon either (because NO, I don't see Democrats returning to power and that is the ONLY thing that puts a smile on the face of the Mass Media).

[vigilante2]

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