Whoa
 

I'm losing track. Hank says they knew the info was wrong. You say they leaked it to refute Wilson. And Wilson was lying about what? That he went to Niger on vacation to sip sweet tea at poolside, or the whole selling uranium to Iraq thing?

The Return of the Plumbers.
 

As one lefty to another, I say: Who fucking cares about the hypocrisy? The issue is the way they manipulate public information and debate about vital matters of national security. So they're saying one thing, and doing another: The bigger problem is what they do, not what they say.

The Return of the Plumbers.
 

this sounds like something you could use to win an election if you can convince people it was accurate.

Whoa
 

I think that Libby and his attorneys were trying to get to classified information for his defense, and I think this new information about the authorization to leak to the press came out in the government's brief arguing that Libby doesn't need the classified information in order to adequately defend himself on the perjury claims.

Whoa
 

I think that that's right.

Anyway, here's a new NYT article that lays out what appears to have happened.

Spanky goes to Washington
 

From Wonkette

• Overheard by a reader who was enjoying free Wi-Fi at Open City last night:
  
  Some former Navy officer (a very Aryan looking one I might add) was just talking about Chile at the table next to me. He said:
  “When you look at Chile, it’s a very economically stable country. That’s thanks to Pinochet. Sure a lot of people died, but they were all Communists. The U.S. Congress could learn a thing or two from Pinochet.”

Whoa
 

This issue was touched on back in Feburary, when Cheney was interviewed by Brit Hume after Cheney shot a man in the face. Apparently there was an allusion to what came out today in earlier briefs, but it referred to Libby's "superiors," but not by name. The question was whether or not Cheney could declassify information.

There's an NPR interview from around that time regarding an executive orders to classify or declassify. The attorney they interviewed suggests that declassification can only happen by the person who originally classified the information, the successor in the office of the person who originally classified the information or the supervisor of the person who classified.

Whoa
 

Does declassification happen without anything in writing? And once it's declassified, shouldn't it be declassified as to everyone? Meaning, other people (such as, say, Congress) shouldn't be told that a document is actually classified?

Whoa
 

It also doesn't seem to help him.

While I've been known to read articles incompletely (hi Balt!), Libby argued he didn't tell Miller anything about Plame because it was classified. Miller's account differs. So, now it is shown that he could have been talking to her about now-declassified information, so his explanation for for his (incorrect or perjurious) recollection is also wrong.

Whoa
 

Oh. Oh. Oh. Pick me! Pick me! I know this one!

Treason?

Whoa
 

Better notify a prosecutor. as an officer of the Court you've a duty to report crimes. But my point is, since you guys have already proven that Bush lied us into a war to increase oil profits, and then completely ruined our expectations of privacy by listening to phone calls- really how much more jail time will he get for this new thing.

Whoa
 

I think the Dems should run with this now - before the mid-term elections.

Impeachment too.

Whoa
 

Well, it wasn't the blow job or the break-in that precipitated past impeachment processes. It was the cover up.

Whoa
 

I know, I know, no one gives a shit.

Whoa
 

Couldn't this be a warning shot towards the admin?