AP:
Specter Calls for Bush to Speak on Leak
WASHINGTON—President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should speak publicly about their involvement in the CIA leak case so people can understand what happened, a leading Republican senator said Sunday.
‘’We ought to get to the bottom of it so it can be evaluated, again, by the American people,’’ said Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In a federal court filing last week, the prosecutor in the case said Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, testified before a grand jury that he was authorized by Bush, through Cheney, to leak information from a classified document that detailed intelligence agencies’ conclusions about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
A lawyer knowledgeable about the case said Saturday that Bush declassified sensitive intelligence in 2003 and authorized its public disclosure to rebut Iraq war critics, but he did not specifically direct that Libby be the one to disseminate the information.
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By anonymous, April 10, 2006 at 10:23 am #
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Plame probably knows Specter real well. They are both from PA. He is angry Plame got him in the mess and he can’t get out.
Report thisBy Hilding Lindquist, April 10, 2006 at 3:43 am #
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Ooh boy, this IS getting interesting! I bet Scott McClelland wishes he would have left with Andie Card! Now Scott is going to be remembered as the person who never got his leaks straight.
Just bear in mind a key tenet of Strausian Neoconism, “If you are unwilling to use the power you have then you don’t deserve to have it.” Other ways of understanding this are, “Power that can’t be used is not power.” or “Use it or lose it.”
We are at a defining moment in the Neocon universe. Are they going to be able to hold together or are they going to fall apart? This is translated into, “How can we use the power we control to pull things together?”
Other ideas in the Neocon mix:
“Those loyal to each other are a base of power.”
“Loyalty to the base of power is its ‘glue’.”
“Encreasing the number of those loyal to the base of power encreases the power of the base.”
“Rewarding loyalty encreases loyalty.”
“Human loyalty is strongest in a religious framework with a belief system calling for total obedience to an Almighty God.”
Can you hear me now?
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