Bush authorized disclosure of classified information
The questions here are:
"Is Bush f**king serious!?"
"What is it going to take to convince you the President is a detriment to this country?"
From yesterday's NY Times (note that the NY Sun broke the story):
President Bush authorized Vice President Dick Cheney in July 2003 to permit Mr. Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., to leak key portions of a classified prewar intelligence estimate on Iraq, according to Mr. Libby's grand jury testimony.
The testimony, cited in a court filing by the government late Wednesday, provides the first indication that Mr. Bush, who has long assailed leaks of classified information as a national security threat, played a direct role in the disclosure of the intelligence report on Iraq at a moment that the White House was trying to defend itself against charges that it had inflated the case against Saddam Hussein.
PDF of the court filing [see pgs. 20 & 23]
The Democrats cite 8 occassions when Bush threatened leakers : Luckily, since Bush has installed himself as God, he need not worry...
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