{"id":7068,"date":"2006-04-06T09:38:02","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T13:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2006-04-06T09:38:02","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T13:38:02","slug":"libby-says-bush-personally-authorized-leak-to-nyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/libby-says-bush-personally-authorized-leak-to-nyt\/","title":{"rendered":"Libby says Bush personally authorized leak to NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"

We learned in February that [tag]Scooter Libby[\/tag] told a grand jury that he was authorized by his “superiors” to disclose classified information<\/a> to reporters about Iraq’s weapons capability in June and July 2003. Who did that include? The conventional wisdom was that it was Dick [tag]Cheney[\/tag]. Yesterday, Libby reportedly explained that it went a little higher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded “National Intelligence Estimate” on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of [tag]President Bush[\/tag], according to a new court filing from the special prosecutor in the case.<\/p>\n

The court papers from the prosecutor, Patrick [tag]Fitzgerald[\/tag], do not suggest that Mr. Bush violated any law or rule. However, the new disclosure could be awkward for the president because it places him, for the first time, directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie [tag]Plame[\/tag], was provided to a reporter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s quite a story. Libby reportedly explained that Cheney told him it was “very important” for parts of NIE to get leaked to Judith [tag]Miller[\/tag]. Libby claims to have resisted the suggestion because the NIE was classified, but according to the story, Cheney told him he got permission for the release directly from Mr. Bush.<\/p>\n

As a court filing filed by Fitzgerald explained, “Defendant testified that the vice president later advised him that the president had authorized defendant to disclose the relevant portions of the NIE.”<\/p>\n

Expect the leak story to get a lot more interesting.<\/p>\n

FDL<\/a> and the Left Coaster<\/a> have more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We learned in February that [tag]Scooter Libby[\/tag] told a grand jury that he was authorized by his “superiors” to disclose classified information to reporters about Iraq’s weapons capability in June and July 2003. Who did that include? The conventional wisdom was that it was Dick [tag]Cheney[\/tag]. Yesterday, Libby reportedly explained that it went a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}