Bush told Cheney to discredit diplomat critical of Iraq policy (Guardian alert)

The Guardian (U.K.) ^ | 07/06/06 | Suzanne Goldenberg

[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.

[Fudd Fan]

BARF alert...~!

[tet68]

Double regurgation, but then liberals lap it up.

[Bahbah]

Side-splitting LOL alert.

[Family Guy]

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.

[MNJohnnie]

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.

[sgtbono2002]

Joe Wilson is a lying sack of crap who needed discrediting.

If facts discredit the former Ambassador then shame on his sorry butt.

[popdonnelly]

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.

[capt. norm]

The liberals have run out of new material and are having to recycle old spin.

[Chode]

how do you discredit the incredible???

[God luvs America]

does Jason Leopold now write for the Guardian???

[funkywbr]

I guess the NYT is now OUT-SOURCING their Bull Crap overseas!~}

[AlphaOneAlpha]

"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.

[jankp]

National Journal/Guardian ahead of Sanity Cycle...
Geesh...