Prosecutor Says Disclosures on Iraq Were Aimed at War Critic
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 7, 2006; Page A01
President Bush authorized White House official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to disclose highly sensitive intelligence information to the news media in an attempt to discredit a CIA adviser whose views undermined the rationale for the invasion of Iraq, according to a federal prosecutor's account of Libby's testimony to a grand jury.
The court filing by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald for the first time places Bush and Vice President Cheney at the heart of what Libby testified was an exceptional and deliberate leak of material designed to buttress the administration's claim that Iraq was trying to obtain nuclear weapons_____________________________________________
Ted's Commentary: I'm sorry, didn't President Bush say that he would FIRE anyone he discovered had been leaking information from the White House? Yeah, I think he did. Why don't we hold him to that?
Let's see...
lying about leaking a CIA operative's identity to punish her husband, a career diplomat because he noticed that the administration was faking intelligence in order to defend their decision to invade Iraq- which had nothing to do with al-Qa'ida or 9/11- and oh yeah, did we mention that He'd planned that unprovoked, "pre-emptive," unilateral invasion BEFORE 911 anyway?
Not only should he be censured and impeached, maybe he should be tried in the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague?
How can "Conservative-Christians" continue to defend this man? How is lying, bullying, cheating, and killing Christian? Is it becasue he's opposed to abortion and gay-marriage? Please! If you are really "pro-life," how can you be pro-war?
Stop the hypocracy. Christians can be Democrats.
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O'Neill: Bush planned Iraq invasion before 9/11
In new book, ex-Treasury secretary criticizes administration
Wednesday, January 14, 2004 Posted: 2:12 AM EST (0712 GMT)
(CNN) -- The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News' 60 Minutes.
"From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go," O'Neill told CBS, according to excerpts released Saturday by the network. "For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap."
O'Neill, who served nearly two years in Bush's Cabinet, was asked to resign by the White House in December 2002 over differences he had with the president's tax cuts.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill served nearly two years in Bush's Cabinet.
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