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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (47308)	4/6/2006 1:16:40 PM
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Bush authorized leak of intelligence data on Iraq, former Cheney aide says Canadian Press Published: Thursday, April 06, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) - President George W. Bush was the one who authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak case. The papers quoted Vice-President Dick Cheney's former top aid, Lewis Libby. Before his indictment, Libby testified to the grand jury investigating the Valerie Plame leak that Cheney told him to pass on the information and that it was Bush who had authorized the leak, the court papers say. According to the documents, the authorization led to the July 8, 2003, conversation between Libby and New York Times reporter Judith Miller. There was no indication in the filing that either Bush or Cheney authorized Libby to specifically disclose Plame's CIA identity. But the disclosure in documents filed Wednesday indicate that the president and the vice-president put Libby in play as a secret provider of information to reporters about prewar intelligence on Iraq. The authorization came as the Bush administration faced mounting criticism about its failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the main reason the president and his aides had given for justifying the invasion of Iraq. Libby's participation in a critical conversation with Miller on July 8, 2003 "occurred only after the vice-president advised defendant that the president specifically had authorized defendant to disclose certain information in the National Intelligence Estimate," the papers by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald stated. The filing did not specify the "certain information." "Defendant testified that the circumstances of his conversation with reporter Miller - getting approval from the president through the vice-president to discuss material that would be classified but for that approval - were unique in his recollection," the papers added. © The Canadian Press 2006 canada.com ========================================================= Houston, we have a problem.

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