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...declassification power to combat attacks on the Administration's case for invading Iraq. Democrats call it a leak. The White House calls it a factual rebuttal. After several days of neither confirming nor denying testimony by ex--White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, officials close to Vice President Cheney said the President indeed declassified part of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) in 2003 but left the method of releasing it up to others. After a conversation with Cheney, Libby delivered the passages to Judith Miller of the New York Times to counter Joseph Wilson, a vocal Administration critic...
Another crumb of controversy fell from the figurative plate of yellowcake last week, when a court filing revealed former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s accusations against both Vice President Dick Cheney and President George W. Bush. The prosecution’s filing said that Libby told a grand jury that Bush had authorized Cheney to leak specific classified information that supported the administration’s views on Iraq, namely that Saddam Hussein had attempted to acquire uranium ore from Niger...
...knowledgeable officials told TIME on Saturday that Bush had, indeed, unilaterally declassified the parts of the NIE following criticism from Wilson, without using the standard declassification process that the White House went through later. The officials said the President told Vice President Cheney that the excerpts should be provided to the press, but had played no role in the actual leak to Judith Miller of The New York Times. "The conversation between the President and the Vice President was only about declassifying," a senior administration official said. "The President made the executive decision, and still believes it was the right...
...Cheney then had a conversation about the release with Libby, his chief of staff at the time, who provided them to Miller. She did not write an article about them. The material, including some findings that had been disputed by members of the intelligence community, was provided to the whole press corps ten days later on July 18, 2003. On that day, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said it had been "just, as of today, officially declassified." Today, he told reporters: "What I told you then was based on what I knew at the time...
...Today at a press conference, President Bush hinted that more personnel changes are coming. A lot of nervous people at the White House--earlier today Vice President Cheney signed up for Monster.com. JIMMY KIMMEL...