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Okay, I know the New York Sun broke the story but I’m leading with Murray Waas who has been a steady hand and great reporter on the Plamegate issue:

"Libby also testified that an administration lawyer told him that Bush, by authorizing the disclosure of classified information, had in effect declassified the information. Legal experts disagree on whether the president has the authority to declassify information on his own."

If the info was already declassified why did Bush say this on Sept 30, 2003: (from Tom Maguire)

"And if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action.

People who broke the law were to be fired; folks who leaked classified info were to be treated appropriately."

Does that make any kind of sense(non)? How do you bring yourself to justice? Maguire points out that

"Some of the responses to the Bush Connection are over-done - Fitzgerald does not come close to alleging wrong-doing by President Bush."

I guess I need to understand how an authorization to release classified information that resulted in compromising our national security because someone shared that which was authorized wasn't wrongdoing. I don't even make sense to myself. Anyone care to explain it to me?

Hat Tip: Talkleft

The Smoking Gun has a pdf of Fitz’s filing here

Firedoglake harkens back:

"And it sure does bring the interview with Fox News after Dick Cheney shot the old man in the face into a sharper focus, doesn’t it?

In an interview with Fox News in February, Mr. Cheney, who has a reputation for secrecy, acknowledged that he has sometimes pressed for the official release of classified records.

"I’ve certainly advocated declassification and participated in declassification decisions," he said.

Asked if he had ever "unilaterally" declassified material, Mr. Cheney replied, "I don’t want to get into that. There is an executive order that specifies who has classification authority, and obviously focuses first and foremost on the president, but also includes the vice president."

Talk about things that make you go "hmmmmm.""

Then, Chris Hardin Smith (Firedoglake) follows in her next post - Grifting Your Own Administration:
by quoting
Fitz in the WaPo:

"I also want to take away from the notion that somehow we should take an obstruction charge less seriously than a leak charge.
This is a very serious matter and compromising national security information is a very serious matter. But the need to get to the bottom of what happened and whether national security was compromised by inadvertence, by recklessness, by maliciousness is extremely important. We need to know the truth. And anyone who would go into a grand jury and lie, obstruct and impede the investigation has committed a serious crime."

For whom is Scooter Libby covering? That question just got a whole lot more interesting as I’m reading through the Fitz motion response."

Firedoglake also posted a reader's response:

"Page 24 of the Fitz filing. Only 3 people Pres, VP and Libby knew that Pres had authorized disclosure of NIE (which Addington gave an off the cuff opinion amounted to de-classifiaction).
Yest despite the fact that the Pres supposedly had already declassified it, and Libby had already revealed it to Miller, the WH was still pressing for it for it to be declassifed???
How can the Pres request the declassification of something he has already declassified???
Help, the room is spinning! Opps, that was my head going 360."

Responding with:

"Is it because: … …(b) Bush was grifting his own administration and not being forthcoming about having already declassified the information because he either wanted it declassified to cover his butt or because he didn’t want them to know he had previously declassified the information because…he knew what was done with it — including revealing Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity — was wrong? (And criminal, in the case of outing a CIA NOC?)"

JOSH GERSTEIN of the New York Sun broke this story. Thank you.

Dailykos reflects:

"The testimony is being picked apart throughout the blogosphere. Did the President personally authorize the selected release of classified information meant to manipulate public opinion about Iraq? Or did Cheney lie? If Cheney corroborates Scooter Libby's story, he implicates the President. If he denies it, he calls his former Chief of Staff a liar.

Lots of questions, though I suspect we won't be receiving any answers from the White House. After all, the President doesn't comment on ongoing investigations (except, of course, when he does). "

The Washington Note wonders out loud - Does the President Plan to Fire Himself?

Here’s Pete Yost’s take in the AP

The Jurist has a small bit and

American Journalism Review keeps The Confidentiality Crisis subject alive with this oh so pertinent bit:

He also touched on the question of whether bloggers should be covered by shield laws that guard journalists from revealing confidential sources.

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