So it was Matalin who thought of declassifying Niger debriefing

It was Mary Matalin who came up with the plan for Bush to expose Joe Wilson by declassifying the CIA debriefing of Wilson to Cheney.

From Murray Waas' report at National Journal:


"Four days later, on July 10, 2003, Mary Matalin, a senior aide to Cheney at the time, warned Libby that Wilson was a "snake" and that his "story has legs," Deputy Special Prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg said in court at Libby's trial.

Matalin then suggested a course of action, according to Zeidenberg: "We need to address the Wilson motivation. We need to be able to get the cable out. Declassified. The president should wave his wand."



The above refers to this, from the same article:

"... One such instance was when Cheney -- with the direct approval of President Bush -- instructed Libby to leak to the press portions of a still-classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Such a disclosure, Cheney and Libby hoped, would prove that the CIA had provided the White House with erroneous intelligence. Later, Cheney directed Libby to leak portions of a highly classified CIA debriefing of Wilson upon his return from Niger -- which Cheney and others mistakenly thought was a CIA cable."

http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/0215nj1.htm

About the behavior of both The Hag and her husband, Snakehead. They're scared and doing everything they can think of to get the pressure off her.

I'm not a lawyer but it sure seems that these guys should be hung for treason.

Take a good long look in the mirror. If you can find one that doesn't instantly crack when your image appears, that is. I wonder how much she and James discuss strategy together? Carville helping wifey-poo with her agenda and vice-versa? It seems to me they have the same agenda: keeping corporate whores in power so they can cash in as much as possible.

Wow. What a couple...