SoldiersMum wrote:

Taguba wrote:When Scott himself says that Bush was the one who de classified the document so Cheney and his brownshirts could out HER without prosecution, it put all the pieces together.  the reason no one was charged with the outing is that BUSH did it himself and that (by deffinintion thanks to Nixon) makes it de-classified. Oops, looks like Bush has stepped in it finally. McCain better start distancing himself from him in a HURRY or it will be too late.

OK..let's start with this one.

First, it is the President's right and purview to declassify a document.  He declassified the portion of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that was classified.  He was requested to do this by the Democrats in Congress so he did it.  The NIE had nothing to do with Valerie Plame.  The NIE was a report on the progress being made in Iraq.  

Really, if you are going to come on here with your comments, and really, we welcome them,  you should get the truth..do a little diligence to read something where history has not been rewritten by your socialist Democrats. FASCIST GOP TRAITORS

McClellan: But the other defining moment was in early April 2006, when I learned that the President had secretly declassified the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq for the Vice President and Scooter Libby to anonymously disclose to reporters. And we had been out there talking about how seriously the President took the selective leaking of classified information. And here we were, learning that the President had authorized the very same thing we had criticized.

Viera: Did you talk to the President and say why are you doing this?

McClellan: Actually, I did. I talked about the conversation we had. I walked onto Air Force One, it was right after an event we had, it was down in the south, I believe it was North Carolina. And I walk onto Air Force One and a reporter had yelled a question to the President trying to ask him a question about this revelation that had come out during the legal proceedings. The revelation was that it was the President who had authorized, or, enable Scooter Libby to go out there and talk about this information. And I told the President that that's what the reporter was asking. He was saying that you, yourself, was the one that authorized the leaking of this information. And he said "yeah, I did." And I was kinda taken aback.

Taguba wrote:

SoldiersMum wrote:

Taguba wrote:When Scott himself says that Bush was the one who de classified the document so Cheney and his brownshirts could out HER without prosecution, it put all the pieces together.  the reason no one was charged with the outing is that BUSH did it himself and that (by deffinintion thanks to Nixon) makes it de-classified. Oops, looks like Bush has stepped in it finally. McCain better start distancing himself from him in a HURRY or it will be too late.

OK..let's start with this one.

First, it is the President's right and purview to declassify a document.  He declassified the portion of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that was classified.  He was requested to do this by the Democrats in Congress so he did it.  The NIE had nothing to do with Valerie Plame.  The NIE was a report on the progress being made in Iraq.  

Really, if you are going to come on here with your comments, and really, we welcome them,  you should get the truth..do a little diligence to read something where history has not been rewritten by your socialist Democrats. FASCIST GOP TRAITORS

Oops, sounds like the CAT'S out of the GOP bag of poo.

McClellan: But the other defining moment was in early April 2006, when I learned that the President had secretly declassified the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq for the Vice President and Scooter Libby to anonymously disclose to reporters. And we had been out there talking about how seriously the President took the selective leaking of classified information. And here we were, learning that the President had authorized the very same thing we had criticized.

Viera: Did you talk to the President and say why are you doing this?

McClellan: Actually, I did. I talked about the conversation we had. I walked onto Air Force One, it was right after an event we had, it was down in the south, I believe it was North Carolina. And I walk onto Air Force One and a reporter had yelled a question to the President trying to ask him a question about this revelation that had come out during the legal proceedings. The revelation was that it was the President who had authorized, or, enable Scooter Libby to go out there and talk about this information. And I told the President that that's what the reporter was asking. He was saying that you, yourself, was the one that authorized the leaking of this information. And he said "yeah, I did." And I was kinda taken aback.

"Now, for the most part, this is not new," emptywheel writes. "We have known (since I first reported it here) that Scooter Libby testified that, after Libby told Dick Cheney he couldn't leak the information Cheney had ordered him to leak to Judy Miller because it was classified, Cheney told Libby he had gotten the President to authorize the declassification of that information."
She continues, "Thus far, though, we only had Dick Cheney's word that he had actually asked Bush to declassify this information. We didn't have Bush's confirmation that he had actually declassified the information. In fact, we've had Dick Cheney's claims that he--Dick--had insta-declassified via his super secret pixie dust declassification powers.
"But now we've got George Bush, confirming that he, the President of the United States, authorized the leaks of 'this information,'"

So where’s the coverage of Armitage?
June 21, 2008

Mary Katharine Ham wonders when, amidst the thorough coverage of Scott McClellan’s chronic bouts of weaseldom, the media might deign to remind us that it was a fellow named Richard Armitage who originally leaked Valerie Plame’s name to the press.

Here’s what she found:

Google News Search for the following, when sorted according to date:
“scott mcclellan” + “bush” = 110 news results in the last 24 hours
“scott mcclellan” + “cheney” = 86 news results in the last 24 hours
“scott mcclellan” + “libby” = 80 news results in the last 24 hours
“scott mcclellan” + “rove” = 41 news results in the last 24 hours
“scott mcclellan” + “armitage” = 4 news results in the last 24 hours

So the answer to her question is pretty much “don’t hold your breath, wingnuts”.
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Well, I’ve got another question. When will conservatives start to remember that Armitage is good buddies with John McCain and a top adviser to his campaign?

This isn’t even a matter of policy. It’s a matter of character.

Armitage, the squishy “realist” who leaked classified information to the press, the guy who stood by silently while Bush took hits and a special prosecutor was called and Joe Wilson mugged for the cameras, even though Armitage had started this whole mess—Armitage is still working, and advising the Republican nominee.

And not just advising the campaign: he’s likely to get a cabinet post in a McCain administration.

…speculation is shifting to which Cabinet members may stick around for the next administration.
Much of the chatter has focused on Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. But a longtime McCain ally said even if the Arizona senator decides to keep Gates on for a few months, it would only be as a placeholder for another Bush administration veteran: fellow Navy and Vietnam veteran Richard L. Armitage.

Armitage, who served as deputy secretary of State under Colin Powell in the first Bush term, is close to McCain. But his appointment might stir controversy among neoconservatives, who distrust Armitage on the war.

It might also stir controversy among people who think you keep your big mouth shut when you’re a Deputy Secretary–and who think that if your little heart-to-heart with Robert Novak blows up into a national scandal that puts other people’s careers and lives on the line and compromises the administration’s effectiveness in defending the country, then maybe you ought to step up and be a man and take responsibility for it instead of letting Karl Rove take all the heat for you.

Or is this just me? Does anyone else find Armitage’s behavior dishonorable?