Norman Rockwell: No Leaking
In keeping with the Norman Rockwell theme we’ve seen over the past couple of days around the liberal blogsphere, initiated by Harry Taylor’s Freedom of Speech moment, Dood Abides, over at DailyKos.com, brings us “No Leaking”:
“No Leaking” is inspired by news that…
President Bush authorized White House official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to disclose highly sensitive intelligence information to the news media in an attempt to discredit a CIA adviser whose views undermined the rationale for the invasion of Iraq, according to a federal prosecutor’s account of Libby’s testimony to a grand jury.
The court filing by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for the first time places Bush and Vice President Cheney at the heart of what Libby testified was an exceptional and deliberate leak of material designed to buttress the administration’s claim that Iraq was trying to obtain nuclear weapons. The information was contained in the National Intelligence Estimate, one of the most closely held CIA analyses of whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the war.
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