Bush acknowledges declassifying Iraq intelligence

No more bullshit spin.

Does anyone believe this BULL SHIT?

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

"I wanted people to see what some of those statements were based on. I wanted people to see the truth. I thought it made sense for people to see the truth. That's why I declassified the document," he said.

After the Serial Liar made the SOTU speech, Hadley gave a press conference and said it was his fault that the bad information got in the speech. They said the 16 words did not belong in the SOTU. Therefore, it makes no sense to declassify a document for "people to see the truth" about something they had already admitted was not true.

Nice try at truth telling, though.

I'm trying to decide whether I want to watch him twist in the wind for another 2.75 years or if it would be more fun to impeach him...Just kidding, impeach this fool.

Then why did you "leak" the information instead of holding one of your photo ops and telling the public? More lies and cover-ups par normal shrub politicking. Republican= party of liers and cover-your-own butts at the cost of others. Slime.

Who reviewed the declassification to be sure that sources and methods were not compromised?

Huh? Huh? Huh?

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It's revealing classified information. It's a felony.

That's the part that was public for quite some time.

He declassified not "the document", but one part of the document.

The others, including the part Libby leaked to Judith Miller, are STILL CLASSIFIED.

That at least, is my understanding, and until the media gets to the (censored) bottom of it, I can only assume Bush is engaging in doubletalk to make it appear that he authorized the declassification of the parts Libby leaked, i.e. the body of the text.

Edit: And he damned well never declassified the annex which probably has lots of stuff about intelligence sources & methods. If he thinks the summary is the entire document then.. ... no, not even with this being him, I will not believe such a ridiculous thing.

He's such a f'ing liar...he may have cherry picked parts of the document to declassify, but only the parts that he felt helped his case and according to the NYT article yesterday...they were either disproved or discredited before he continued to use them.

Why didn't he tell the judge in the Judith Miller case that "fact?"

Obstruction of justice seems an appropriate charge....

.. is Iraq "liberated" when it is now in the yoke
of a terrible civil war and one USA stupidity
after another?

Answer on a postage stamp please.

I realize he doesn't watch the news as he has admitted to that but does he really not understand that removing Saddam from power does not equal liberation? What the hell is his definition of liberated?

Is he just lying to our faces about a document that right in front of us?

,...and all that.

The man is such a freakin' liar and a fraud and,...a common criminal. Why. the. hell. is. he. still. in. charge?

ARGH!!!

"I wanted people to see the truth" and "I did not have sex with that woman"..........

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Bush Says He Declassified Pre-War Intel

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer 25 minutes ago

WASHINGTON -
President Bush said Monday that he declassified sensitive prewar intelligence on Iraq back in 2003 to counter critics who claimed the administration had exaggerated the nuclear threat posed by Saddam Hussein.


"I wanted people to see the truth and thought it made sense for people to see the truth," Bush said during an appearance at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

"You're not supposed to talk about classified information, and so I declassified the document," he said in a question-and-answer session after delivering a speech on Iraq. "I thought it was important for people to get a better sense for why I was saying what I was saying in my speeches. And I felt I could do so without jeopardizing ongoing intelligence matters, and so I did."

It was Bush's first comment since more detail about the release of a prewar intelligence document surfaced last week in a court filing by U.S. prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.

In the filing, Fitzgerald wrote that Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, told a grand jury that Bush authorized him, 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 it to be publicly disclosed to rebut Iraq war critics. But the lawyer said Bush did not specifically direct Libby to disseminate information about prewar intelligence to reporters.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sent a letter to Bush on Monday asking him for details about how the document was declassified. "There are many questions that the president must answer so that the American people can understand that this declassification was done for national security purposes, not for immediate political gain."

in this case to disseminate to the public the same self-fulfilling, result-oriented bullshit information and judgments that Cheney was browbeating out of the Pentagon and CIA.