--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the furor surrounding the revelation that Bush > himself approved the "outing" of Valerie Plame
In fact, there has been no such revelation. The revelation is that Scooter Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff (currently under indictment for obstruction of justice), according to special prosecutor Fitzgerald in a court filing, claims that Cheney told him that Bush had authorized the leaking of certain information from a classified National Intelligence Estimate to a reporter 10 days before parts of that NIE were declassified and released to the public. What connection, if any, that leak has to the outing of Plame is unclear. The preponderance of legal opinion at this point is that the leak of the NIE information, while it did not follow established procedures, was not a crime per se (although it was hypocritical in the extreme given Bush's condemnation of leaks generally, and the fact that the NIE leak appears to have been made for political purposes). There's also a question (but not Fitzgerald's question, at least so far) as to whether Bush and Cheney, in their interviews with Fitzgerald, may have effectively lied in not revealing that Bush had authorized the NIE leak. , a > high-level undercover CIA operative (an act that > is technically treason according to U.S. law): > > "Give it a rest already. We all know that > Presidential treason is nowhere near as > serious as getting a blow job." > > :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
