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...turns out he used his 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...
...lawyer knowledgeable about the case said Bush directed that the material "be put out to the press and charged the Vice President with doing it, without saying when or where or how." A senior Administration official said the President had "no idea" of "Scooter's role or who he would be talking to" and gave no "tactical authorization" for putting out the material...
...President Bush did not authorize the leak of intelligence information to counter attacks from a critic of the Iraq war, the White House isn't saying so. In fact, the President's men are laying the groundwork for defending the disclosure in case the testimony by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, turns out to be accurate...
Whether Batali and Bastianich can successfully export their festival of gratification around the country isn't yet clear. The Vegas restaurants will be staffed with experienced talent from their New York restaurants, but Batali won't be able to ride his Vespa scooter to them each night, a quality-control measure he uses in Manhattan. Still, Batali won't run out of culinary ideas any time soon. On his Mac he keeps a database of 20,000 recipes collected over the years on his travels to out-of-the-way Italian towns like the one where he apprenticed...
...divide over how hard to push on an issue as contentious as torture reflects how even six years in office together has not integrated the Bush and Cheney teams; in fact, in some ways they have grown further apart. It was Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, now indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice, who designed Cheneyland, which is largely housed in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, across from the White House. Determined to maintain tight control, Libby created a bottleneck beneath Cheney by trying to keep "all sensitive or politically interesting information to himself...