DNow Interview: Waas-How Cheney Authorized Libby to Leak Classified Info!

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We speak with investigative journalist Murray Waas who reports that Lewis "Scooter" Libby - Cheney's indicted former chief of staff - testified he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence in making the case to invade Iraq.
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We turn now to the ongoing controversy over the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Three months ago Vice President Cheney's chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby resigned after being charged with obstruction of justice, lying to the FBI and committing perjury before a federal grand jury in connection to the Plame case.

So far Libby is the only White House official to be charged in the case. He is schedule to go on trial next January - two months after the mid-term elections.

read more here:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/10/1433252

I'll be watching this tonight night on FSTV at 7pm time slot-- Go Amy Goodman!!!!!:applause:


on edit: Transcript is also on site page!!!

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1. Murray Waas gave a good account of what's going with the

current news that Cheney told him to go forward.

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2. cool I can not wait to watch it tonight - I love Amy saw her speek

last year at St. Pete College on her "Exception to the Rulers" tour.

[seemslikeadream]

4. I'm not familiar with FSTV

is that on line?

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7. I'm sorry - Free Speech TV, and Link TV are two channels on

the satelite subsciptions that DNow and a host of other great programs televise on.

I am not sure if they are on other cable providers.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Well, it's a very poor interview. He trips all over himself trying to say

that Cheney isn't guilty of a crime, and that Libby isn't ratting on Cheney, and that there is no evidence that others were involved--when all information so far, including recent information (some of it developed by Waas) is pointing big red arrows in the other direction, that of a broad-based conspiracy, involving many top Bushites including Bush. I think Waas was having an off-day, where he just got tangled up trying to clarify certain things, and ended up on the wrong side of the hair ball.

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8. Murray is definitely a written communicator.

It's just the way he's hardwired. So, that'll keep him off the talk show circuit - maybe, that's a good thing.

Sure hasn't helped David Corn.

[Me.]

5. Paul Pillar

is now on CNN talking about how B***co cherry picked the intel, to go to war. So far we have a 3 star day. This interview, Waas, who is always brilliant, and Brownie pointing the finger at the WH.

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6. K&R, I'll have to watch it later tonite

[Nothing Without Hope]

9. K & R - thanks for this! Here are some links to related threads:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2098146
thread title (2-9-06 LBN): WP A1: Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq ("cherry-picking")
Comment/excerpt: “The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year {Paul R. Pillar, who was the national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005} has accused the Bush administration of "cherry-picking" intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein…."Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war," Pillar wrote in the upcoming issue of the journal Foreign Affairs. Instead, he asserted, the administration "went to war without requesting -- and evidently without being influenced by -- any strategic-level intelligence assessments on any aspect of Iraq." ‘It has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community's own work was politicized,’ Pillar wrote.”
Also predicted civil discord inside Iraq as we are seeing today – it’s civil war, and it was all spelled out and ignored by the Bushies.

Another thread on this story, based on quickly disappearing Yahoo News report:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x377300
thread title (2-10-06 GD): Bush Waged Iraq War by "Cherry Picking" Evidence-Former CIA official

I hope more new information comes out in this interview - I'll definitely be back for the transcript! :toast:

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10. Thanks! Remember Powell's chief of stuff came out and said BushCo Lied.

Kind of surprised this didn't get more legs in Corporate McPravda -- NOT.

Powell's Former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson Calls Pre-War Intelligence a 'Hoax on the American People' Tonight on PBS Program 'NOW'

Friday February 3, 12:19 pm ET

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- In an interview airing tonight on the PBS weekly newsmagazine NOW, Colin Powell's former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson makes the startling claim that much of Powell's landmark speech to the United Nations laying out the Bush Administration's case for the Iraq war was false.

"I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community, and the United Nations Security Council," says Wilkerson, who helped prepare the address.

The NOW report, which airs days before the third anniversary of Powell's speech, examines the serious doubts that existed about the key evidence being used by the American government at the very time Powell's speech was being planned and delivered.

"I recall vividly the Secretary of State walking into my office," Wilkerson tells NOW. "He said: 'I wonder what will happen if we put half a million troops on the ground in Iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and don't find a single weapon of mass destruction?'" In fact, no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.

SOURCE:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060203/nyf073.html?.v=35

Thanks for the heads up on Waas and Goodman. They are two of the good guys.

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11. TX stb for the heads up!

I'll try to catch it on FSTV or on line later. In the meantime, here's a 'kick' for others to see this.

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12. And who could have authorized Cheney, one person: capo de tuti capi * !!!

Isn't this how they do mob investigations. They just keep turning the underlings until they get the capo de tuti capi. Who is investigating all this, Fitzgerald, a classic mob investigator.

Drip, drip, drip.

Excellent! RECOMMENDED and Waas rules!