Cheney & Classification by georgia10, Daily Kos, February 16, 2006
In a March 2003 executive order, Bush greatly expanded the Vice President's authority over classification decisions. Did he do this to pave the way for exposing Plame's identity?
"So the decision was made to smear the [sic] Wilson by leaking the information about his wife. Such a leak could not originate from the President's office--too dangerous, its members too high-profile, and we know that the dirty deeds have been orchestrated by the vice-president's office in the past. Did the President and the Vice-President conspire then to alter the exective order to give the Vice-President the authority to orchestrate the smear?"
