>>>The new evidence also says something about Bush secrecy. This administration has moved on many levels to restrict public—and even official—access to information. Cutting off flows of data formerly routinely provided to Congress or the public, defenestrating access to the records of former presidents mandated by the Presidential Records Act, curbing the Freedom of Information Act, refusing to describe to Congress its domestic communications interception program and most recently reclassifying documents in the public domain for years. Suddenly we see President Bush, without a care, releasing secret records he felt would bolster his case.<<<
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And to make matters worse, of the information Bush-Cheney-Libby declassified, the portion of the document that contradicted the political result of the declassification they withheld. The one-page summary of the NIE, the leaked document, that stated the departments of Energy and State disagreed with the conclusions Bush-Cheney-Libby were emphasizing--indeed, this was omitted from the leak. This amounts to propagandaizing the American public. Republicans, not just Democrats and Independents should be appalled!!! |
