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Where does lying under oath get you? Well, try on Perjury, Obstruction of Justice, multiple counts of Making False Statements. That's what the Vice President's former Chief of Staff is up again
st.
Hah! And whoever accused Bush of being slow on the uptake need only look at the Attorney General of the United States' unsworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee to recognize he's moved a ratchet or two up the Travesty Scale. No pesky indictments forthcoming there.
But Murray Waas is back with another blockbuster about Scooter Libby - CYA with a refreshing twist - Scooter's passing the buck further UP the chain of command!
In the nonpartisan National Journal, Waas writes that the Scooter's broad defense in his January 2007 trial will be that Cheney and other senior White House officials "encouraged and authorized him to share classified information with journalists to build public support for going to war. Later, after the war began in 2003, Cheney authorized Libby to release additional classified information, including details of the highly classified National Intelligence Estimate, to defend the administration's use of prewar intelligence in making the case for war".
Can this be the season of indicted underlings blaming their bosses? Scooter only goes as far as saying they told him to share the NIE that he and Judy Miller bonded over at their oh-so-hard-to-precisely-recall candlelit dinner - but if a little bit of trivia about a covert CIA operative spilled out, well…
Scooter’s hardly to blame, he was specifically told by the grownups that he couldn't get in trouble!
Remember where we are on the Travesty Scale - we can only guess at what the grownups' defense will be. Vice President Cheney refusing to be sworn in because, in his oath of Office, he's already sworn to tell the truth, safeguard classified information and uphold the Constitution?
Why, pray tell, is Waas the only reporter in the entire world, apparently, who plows through Federal Court documents to come up with breakthrough stories like this.
Murray puts the MSM to shame on coverage of the Plame Affair, again.
In context, this shows how the Bush Administration utilizes classified information to meet their political objectives.
Last week, Bush, Cheney and Gonzales were publicly proclaiming, ad nauseum, that they couldn't reveal what they've actually done with their NSA warrantless domestic spying on the grounds of national security.
Yet, these lying crooks have no qualms about leaking national security information to sympathetic reporters as a means of justifying their war or discrediting their critics.
I've never understood how the Bushmen could think that implying Valerie sponsored her husband's trip to Niger in any way discredited his findings. Nevertheless, it's obvious they were willing to throw the full force of national security into their effort.
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