Thanks, Professor Cole. Now, a single post to send your friends who are still confused over the whole Niger-to Wilson-to-Plame timeline, with little things like, oh facts and such.
If I understand correctly, it may not be chaney who authorized libby. But it was definately one of Libby's superiors (personally, I'm sure chaney had a hand in it...I'm just sayin'...). From CNN: In a letter to Libby's lawyers, obtained by CNN, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said it is his understanding that Libby testified he was "authorized to disclose information about the National Intelligence Estimate to the press by his superiors."
The letter does not name who the superiors are. But the National Journal, which first reported on the Fitzgerald letter, named Vice President Dick Cheney and other White House officials as authorizing Libby to disclose the classified material.
On a related note CNN: n an article published on Friday in the journal Foreign Affairs, Paul R. Pillar, the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, called the relationship between U.S. intelligence and policymaking "broken."
"In the wake of the Iraq war, it has become clear that official intelligence analysis was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made," Pillar wrote.
Hey John, this is completely off topic, but I have been typing things like "horrible republicans and f*** George Bush" into Google in hopes of getting my own FBI file, and somehow that led me to your totally reputable blog. Omigod, you shouldn't make a perimenopausal woman with a weak bladder laugh so much!! (IRV...please go to RiteAid and get me a box of panty liners...please?) Guess I got a Kung Fu Monkey of my own so to speak. Enough sad attempts at humor, I bow to my new blog idol!
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If I understand correctly, it may not be chaney who authorized libby.
But it was definately one of Libby's superiors (personally, I'm sure chaney had a hand in it...I'm just sayin'...).
From CNN:
In a letter to Libby's lawyers, obtained by CNN, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said it is his understanding that Libby testified he was "authorized to disclose information about the National Intelligence Estimate to the press by his superiors."
The letter does not name who the superiors are. But the National Journal, which first reported on the Fitzgerald letter, named Vice President Dick Cheney and other White House officials as authorizing Libby to disclose the classified material.
On a related note
CNN:
n an article published on Friday in the journal Foreign Affairs, Paul R. Pillar, the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, called the relationship between U.S. intelligence and policymaking "broken."
"In the wake of the Iraq war, it has become clear that official intelligence analysis was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made," Pillar wrote.
Considering that Libby was assistant to Cheney, he didn't have too many "superiors," besides Cheney and Bush.
Hey John, this is completely off topic, but I have been typing things like "horrible republicans and f*** George Bush" into Google in hopes of getting my own FBI file, and somehow that led me to your totally reputable blog. Omigod, you shouldn't make a perimenopausal woman with a weak bladder laugh so much!! (IRV...please go to RiteAid and get me a box of panty liners...please?) Guess I got a Kung Fu Monkey of my own so to speak. Enough sad attempts at humor, I bow to my new blog idol!
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