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Bush told Cheney to discredit diplomat critical of Iraq policy (Guardian alert)
The Guardian (U.K.) ^
| 07/06/06
| Suzanne Goldenberg
Posted on 07/05/2006 5:40:36 PM PDT by Pokey78
· Vice-president told to put out classified information
· No instruction to out CIA agent, says president
President George Bush directed his vice-president, Dick Cheney, to take personal charge of a campaign to discredit a former ambassador who had accused the administration of twisting prewar intelligence on Iraq, it emerged yesterday.
The revelation by the National Journal, a respected weekly political magazine, that Mr Bush took a personal interest in countering damaging allegations by the former ambassador, Joe Wilson, reveals a White House that was extraordinarily sensitive to any criticism of its prewar planning. It also returns the focus of the criminal investigation into the outing of a CIA agent to the White House only weeks after the senior aide Karl Rove was told he would not face prosecution.
The Journal said Mr Bush made the admission in a July 24 2004 interview in the Oval Office with the special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, who is leading the investigation into the outing of the CIA agent, Valerie Plame. Ms Plame is married to Mr Wilson, who says her cover was broken in retaliation after he accused the administration of knowingly using false information on Saddam Hussein's weapons programme.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cialeak
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posted on
07/05/2006 5:40:37 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
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posted on
07/05/2006 5:42:12 PM PDT
by
Fudd Fan
(Help get Murtha out of Congress- donate at http://www.irey.com/)
To: Fudd Fan
Double regurgation, but then liberals lap it up.
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posted on
07/05/2006 5:45:12 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Pokey78
Side-splitting LOL alert.
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posted on
07/05/2006 5:45:47 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Democrat Motto: Why not the worst)
To: Pokey78
Bush told Cheney to discredit diplomat critical of Iraq policy (Guardian alert)Maybe he did, but only because it's a man's duty to discredit a liar.
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posted on
07/05/2006 5:47:35 PM PDT
by
Family Guy
(I disagree with what you said, but I'll defend to the death your right to shut up.)
To: Pokey78
Right. Another "fake but true" Media creation no doubt. Gee let see. A shadow clique of bureaucrat CIA stooges trys to undermined the policy of the elected Government of the USA and that elected Government is suppose to just allow the fraudulent propaganda to go unanswered?
Tell you what Leftists. When you express 1/8th the angst about the REAL leaks to the NY Treason Times that you have about the phony NON leak of a NON covert CIA employees identity, we will take you seriously. Just another example of the Democrat Party's Culture of Hypocrisy. In the Leftist wacko world view, the NON leak of Plame is important but the REAL repeated leaks from Government sources criminally violating their oaths is not.
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posted on
07/05/2006 5:47:35 PM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
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To: Pokey78
Joe Wilson is a lying sack of crap who needed discrediting.
If facts discredit the former Ambassador then shame on his sorry butt.
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posted on
07/05/2006 5:54:19 PM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: Pokey78
It seems they'll do and say anything to keep this Plame thing going. I think Wilson and the usual suspects are behind the National Journal article. Curious that they complain about the supposed leak of Plame's identity, which even Patrick Fitzgerald can't establish, and yet it's okay to publish secret and classified matters in the leftist press.
To: Fudd Fan
The liberals have run out of new material and are having to recycle old spin.
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posted on
07/05/2006 6:03:02 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(W.C. Fields: "The time has come to take the bull by the tail and face the situation".)
To: Pokey78
how do you discredit the incredible???
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posted on
07/05/2006 6:40:24 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: Pokey78
does Jason Leopold now write for the Guardian???
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posted on
07/05/2006 7:14:26 PM PDT
by
God luvs America
(When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
To: Pokey78
I guess the NYT is now OUT-SOURCING their Bull Crap overseas!~}
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posted on
07/05/2006 7:26:31 PM PDT
by
funkywbr
To: sgtbono2002
"Joe Wilson is a lying sack of crap who needed discrediting."
Correction:
Joe Wilson is an two-bit lying sack of crap who needs his ass kicked, big time.
To: Pokey78
National Journal/Guardian ahead of Sanity Cycle...
Geesh...
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posted on
07/05/2006 10:52:46 PM PDT
by
jankp
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