Isikoff on MSNBC now - 2:31

on Plame.

his is discussing WMDs right now.

'what Libby disclosed... to Judy Miller.. were those aspects of the NIE that supported the administration, he did not disclose the dissent.'

'they were AUTHORIZED leaks, much like this one was.'

'although it is an interesting development, it is not important. The President has the authority to desclassify what he wants.'

Thanks.

R!

or telling the truth?

Yep, he actually said that.

Clueless.

How many laws are they going to break and then have rewritten or reinterpreted.

Bush directed Libby to leak the parts of the intelligence that supported them but they, of course, left out all the caveats included in the intelligence reports - such as leaking that the tubes could only be used for nukes but not leaking the State Dept. and Energy Dept. both saying the tubes could NOT be used for nukes, instead they could only be used for missiles.

anyone under FOIA, not just to say, Woodward?

They can't have it both ways. They can't say that they declassified it when Woodward looked at it, then reclassified it after he was done with it, can they?

I wish there was more coverage - I have questions and no answers.

the nitwit's ability to classify information, he won't be able to defend the obstruction of justice charge. The nitwit's public statements about "finding the leaker & punishing him" defy any defense of his withholding important information from the investigation.

Hmmm. Bill Schneider disagreed on CNN. He said the new testimony strikes a huge blow at Bush's already-disintegrating political credibility.

What is Isikoff's problem?!? The President lied when he pretended not to know the identity of the leakers... isn't that, at least, "important"?

and he ratings are already in the toilet.

tetimony (which isn't new and was referred to in Fitz's letter to the defense in early February) doesn't say that Cheney/Bush authorized leak of Plame info.

But clearly the Administration has a problem when info is leaked that they don't want leaked while it leaks info to suit its own purposes.

if Bush got a bj from Cheney.

Is that he sold his soul for half a can of bacon grease in the attempted Coup against President Clinton, and cannot ever escape the consequences....

"Kill one, warn one hundred."

You got that right about Isikoff.

That's the bottom line. Isikoff is shilling for the WH, again.

where bush spoke today. they actually just reported it.

his balloon pierced

"Spikey" because Woodward had it all in his book. This President declassifies information all the time and it's not illegal for him to do it. He was just leaking to make his case for war...but everyone knew...blah...blah...blah.

He must have gotten a big payoff for Linda Tripp and the Blue Dress. He doesn't even have to work anymore for a story...he's just a stenographer..

in 2002 that there were no WMD in Iraq, the aluminum tubes WEREN'T for nukes and I knew that Saddam DID NOT have ties to al Quaeda and I knew the smoking gun WOULD NOT be a mushroom cloud.

When BushCo made its case for war, I was reading NYT and WaPo, listening to NPR and watching NPTV, MSM and cable news. I thought I was well educated on the issues but I was on the fence about going to war in Iraq because I did not know if BushCo was telling the truth and people like Hans Blix were telling a different story. BushCo made a compelling case for the Iraq War and the media and Congress swallowed it whole. I sat on the fence at the time.

So EVERYONE DID NOT KNOW about BushCo lies at the time he told them soon after 9-11. Now we DO KNOW: BushCo is a corporate whore that has lied to Congress and the American people and engaged in criminal activities including perpetrating a fraud on us all to go to war.

said this shows how utterly corrupt, venal, cynical, dishonest (my characterization) the regime is. he prefaced his remarks by saying he didn't have to pull any punches