What Fitzgerald asked Bush in their meeting on June 24, 2004.

[keopeli]

Compare these two realities in today's news.

Libby has repeatedly denied that Cheney ever authorized him to leak highly classified information. (Look for the legal lingo being used.)

Excerpts from the National Journal.

Both Libby and Cheney have repeatedly insisted that the vice president never encouraged, directed, or authorized Libby to disclose Plame's identity. In a court filing on April 12, Libby's attorneys reiterated: "Consistent with his grand jury testimony, Mr. Libby does not contend that he was instructed to make any disclosures concerning Ms. Wilson by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, or anyone else."

Today it is revealed that Cheney told Libby to leak highly classified information risking national security in an effort to debunk critics of the Bush Administration's use of Intelligence to stir the national will to war.

Vice President Dick Cheney directed his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on July 12, 2003 to leak to the media portions of a then-highly classified CIA report that Cheney hoped would undermine the credibility of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, according to Libby's grand jury testimony in the CIA leak case and sources who have read the classified report.

These guys know how to manipulate the law. The right against self-incrimination is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you are prohibited from lying to a grand jury. On the other hand, you have the right to refuse to incriminate yourself. It's my understanding that one must invoke that right during questioning, rather than answering with misleading phrases.

Where is Bush? Isn't it odd that Bush is not even present to make this decision? Wait a minute - I know where Bush was!

He was declassifying the information!

The next logical question can be answered only by Bush himself. Did he do it first, or did Cheney get his approval after the fact?

And so, we know finally what Fitzgerald was asking on that short meeting with Bush on June 24, 2004, before that important election.

"It's hard to believe the special prosecutor would be burdening the president with an interview unless they had testimony to the effect that the president had information," said Floyd Abrams, a First Amendment lawyer representing Time magazine in the probe.

Mr President, I just have one question for you. When exactly did you declassify the National Intelligence Estimate?

<<silence>>

[Sparkly]

1. That is an important question

and, at least publicly, the WH has refused to answer it.

[Missy Vixen]

2. Important. K&R'ed

>Mr President, I just have one question for you. When exactly did you declassify the National Intelligence Estimate?<

We'd all like to know that, wouldn't we?

Julie