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NY Times Calls for Release of Bush-Cheney Interviews in PlameGate

The New York Times blasts Bush and Cheney on the NIE report leaks in the Valerie Plame investigation.

Since Mr. Bush regularly denounces leakers, the White House has made much of the notion that he did not leak classified information, he declassified it. This explanation strains credulity. Even a president cannot wave a wand and announce that an intelligence report is declassified.

To declassify an intelligence document, officials have to decide whether disclosing the information would jeopardize the sources that provided it or the methods used to gather it. To answer that question, they closely study the origins of the intelligence to be disclosed. Had Mr. Bush done that, he should have seen that the most credible information made it clear that the Niger story was wrong. (In any case, Iraq's supposed attempt to buy uranium from Niger happened four years before the invasion, and failed. The idea that this amounted to a current, aggressive and continuing campaign to build nuclear weapons in 2002 -- as Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney called it -- is laughable.)

The Times calls upon Patrick Fitzgerald to make public Bush and Cheney's 2004 interviews in the leaks investigation.

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    Re: NY Times Calls for Release of Bush-Cheney Inte (none / 0) (#1)
    by squeaky on Sat Apr 15, 2006 at 08:45:45 PM EST
    Not only are they the 'most secretive ever' about their own activities but they have been re-classifying docs as well. CIA, other agencies have reclassified more than 55,000 pages since 1999 Obviously the times is reacting to the WH propaganda piece edited by Fred Hiatt at WaPo with the title A Good Leak Except the NYT is using fact rather than distilled WH lies. Nice touch to ask Fitzgerald to release the interviews, Good luck NYT, I wouldn't hold my breath on it though. .

    Re: NY Times Calls for Release of Bush-Cheney Inte (none / 0) (#2)
    by squeaky on Sat Apr 15, 2006 at 09:31:46 PM EST
    Jane at FDL does a disection/smackdown of Hiatt's WaPo editorial and Howell's pitiful defence of it. She starts off with a great Sinclair Lewis quote:
    It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.


    Lie away and trust to luck, Executive power run amuck. Policy set by those on high, We're inept so we must lie. No one left to pass the buck.

    Re: NY Times Calls for Release of Bush-Cheney Inte (none / 0) (#4)
    by oldtree on Sun Apr 16, 2006 at 09:39:35 AM EST
    it is really strange to me that the times and the wapo have changed overnight into each other, there is something not quite right about this sort of strange being left in a total vacuum that approaches. We have no one to arrest the people that are going to be charged with felonies here in the near future. extrapolate please, as there is talk the military is ready to stand down, and when that happens, the WH has to try to explain that, which it won't be able to. it seems like maybe our military is going to have to run the country for a brief time while we get a new government. t'would have been deeply disturbed about this during any other administration, but now the Joint Chiefs putting a halt to the criminal activity seems a good thing? very odd that we have moved to this point. A military tribunal will deal with the president and his cabal of conspirators, fascinating isn't it? we know we can't rely on the scotus, their chief is deeply suspect due to the criminal that appointed him, scalia is obviously openly pro crime, actively supporting it, scalito is clearly a puppet putz that should have never been considered due to his overtly fascist statements, and you have "pubes" thomas, that isn't remotely qualified for the court either, but has the decency to not act like the stooge that he was thought to be by the dweeb making the appointment someone says 7 congress people, one being a senator are going down? that is obviously someone attempting to do damage control in advance, folks know that hundreds are involved, the people in congress are scared to inaction because of the things they have had to do to be elected and re elected. they won't speak up unless they are clean, and how many are speaking up right now? see? funny, the hopes we have of getting truth out in front will be blocked by every facet of our government because they can't afford the truth to come out at all. WTF do we have going for ourselves at this point? the shell of a fragile republican form of government.