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- Court won't resurrect lawsuit in CIA leak case
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  The appeals court said there was no constitutional basis for the court to step in and it declined to create one. The judges said Plame and Wilson could bring their case under the Privacy Act, though it does not cover the president or vice president's offices. The court also said it must be reluctant to wade into national security issues.
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- Correction: McClellan tells Today show Bush authorized Libby to leak National Intelligence Assessment on Iraq
  Posted by Jeff from Talking Points Memo
  Kudos to Gregory for pointing out that McClellan said the President acknowledged authorizing the leak of the classified National Intelligence Assessment on Iraq. Earlier in the interview, McClellan had expressed disappointment for having been lied to by Rove and Libby about their involvement in the Plame affair. I stand corrected.
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- Cheney's subpoenaed e-mails missing
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Even though White House computer technicians hunted high and low, an entire week's worth of e-mail from Cheney's office was missing. The week was Sept. 30, 2003, to Oct. 6, 2003, the opening days of the Justice Department's probe into whether anyone at the White House leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame
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- White House reused e-mail tapes
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  Among the e-mails that could be lost are messages swapped by any White House officials involved in discussions about leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
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- Libby, Cheney, Rove civil suit dismissed
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  While Bates did not address the constitutional questions, he seemed to side with administration officials who said they were acting within their job duties. Plame had argued that what they did was illegal and outside the scope of their government jobs.
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- Fitzgerald may be called to testify about Libby case
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  Leahy added that this was "a blatant way of guaranteeing that Scooter Libby would not talk about the things that were done, you know, some of the misleading information given out by Vice President Cheney and the president. They led us into this war in Iraq, and they bought his silence. I can understand why the prosecutor was so angry about it."
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- Clinton criticizes Libby prison commute
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  There isn't any doubt now, what we know is that Libby was carrying out the implicit or explicit wishes of the vice president, or maybe the president as well, in the further effort to stifle dissent.
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theangryindian comments on:
Correction: McClellan tells Today show Bush authorized Libby to leak National Intelligence Assessment on Iraq

Even after this, nothing will happen.

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8:46 pm 5/30/08
thebeerdoctor comments on:
Correction: McClellan tells Today show Bush authorized Libby to leak National Intelligence Assessment on Iraq

I always find it odd, but how can anything be "tainted" by "profit motive" in a capitalist society? Public displays of altruism would equally face scorn for McClellan, whether it was Arianna Huffington or Sean Hannity. What matters finally is the work, whether it has something that is historically sustainable. Work that is useful can be produced by scoundrels. Opera still performs Richard Wagner, does it not?

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3:00 pm 5/30/08
Jeff comments on:
Correction: McClellan tells Today show Bush authorized Libby to leak National Intelligence Assessment on Iraq

BeerDoctor, I still think McClellan was so dishonest and evasive as spokesman that his attempts to come clean here are not better late than never but tainted instead by profit motive.
If he really wanted to do good, he should donate 75% of the book’s proceeds to charity and erase the unseemliness of speaking out now to promote book sales.

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11:31 am 5/30/08
thebeerdoctor comments on:
Correction: McClellan tells Today show Bush authorized Libby to leak National Intelligence Assessment on Iraq

Much of the complaints from the left about McClellan’s book seem to miss the main point. This is a memoir from a disillusioned true believer of George W Bush, who’s roots go all the way back to Texas. How strange that the White House and their minions speak of disloyalty, who they themselves deliberately instructed McClellan to lie to the American people.
Whatever money is made from the book, that is a ridiculous attempt to discredit the content. The rants at Fox News claim McClellan was just in it for the money. That is truly rich, from a crowd that has made a thriving cottage industry marketing nonsense.

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7:52 am 5/30/08
theauthor comments on:
Correction: McClellan tells Today show Bush authorized Libby to leak National Intelligence Assessment on Iraq

Due to the fact that everyone knows that Plame’s ID was leaked by Armitage, one has to wonder how much McClellan thinks he will make from this soon to be best seller. By the way, the only reason Armitage leaked her ID was because her hubby was running around telling everyone that they had to listen to him because "My wife works for the CIA."
A recording of this very conversation is on the net.

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2:17 pm 5/29/08
Jeff comments on:
Correction: McClellan tells Today show Bush authorized Libby to leak National Intelligence Assessment on Iraq

Thanks for posting. I think you are right. I’ll post a correction shortly. Thanks for pushing me to be clear on this!

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2:14 pm 5/29/08
leif comments on:
Correction: McClellan tells Today show Bush authorized Libby to leak National Intelligence Assessment on Iraq

Here’s the interview: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24870079#24870079
Watching that, I don’t think it is so clear that he’s saying Bush authorized the Plame leak.

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11:49 am 5/29/08