From Kathy Gill,
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Jun 11 2007

April 2006

10 April 2006
Specter Calls For Explanation; Bush Confirmed As "Leaker"
The New York Times reports that a White House official (unnamed, of course) has confirmed that President Bush declassified parts of the National Intelligence Estimate in June 2003 to counter critics but denies that this information was authorized to share with reporters. Yet a January 2003 National Intelligence Council memo which has just come to light "was unequivocal: The Niger story was baseless and should be laid to rest."

8 April 2006
Libby, Cheney, Bush: The Wilson-Plame Saga Drags On
The revelation -- or accusation -- that President Bush authorized leaks of a classified document in defense of his rational for the Iraqi invasion has cemented opinions of Administration skeptics (here, here, here) and resulted in a shrug/it's-another-Democratic-plot defense from the right (here, here, here).

February 2006

9 February 2006
Libby Defense: Cheney "Authorized" Leak
The National Journal is reporting that former Vice Presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby testified before the Fitzgerald grand jury "that he had been 'authorized' by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq."