“Asked if someone worked at CIA, would there be records.”

Now why would Libby be asking this, if s*** hit the fan about her status he’d [either “be protected,” or “be scr**ed”], or because he didn’t trust the CIA, or because he had some way to access their records?

And I would point out that the WH never DID present ANY such documentation indicating that “non-covert”, “unclassified” Desk Jockey Secretary Wilson somehow was THE ONE who “arranged” her husbands “junket” to the Riviera of the Sahel!

Sounds like Libby was going to ask (will there be testimony that he or Cheney DID ask?). But they got nada!

Re. The declassification…juxtaposed with the questions about the Presidents capacity to declassify anything with the questions about the “CIA employee” this smells really bad. Of course, the Pres also declassified portions of the NIE…so were Libby’s queries about THAT (if so why didn’t Deadeye Dick ask his Chief Counsellor)? Or were they in regard to declassifying Plame’s status, or both?litigatormom @
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Executive Order 13292, dated March 2003, permits both the president and the vice-president to classify information.

However, declassification authority is defined in Sec. 6(l) as:

(l) “Declassification authority” means:

(1) the official who authorized the original classification, if that official is still serving in the same position;
(2) the originators current successor in function;
(3) a supervisory official of either; or
(4) officials delegated declassification authority in writing by the agency head or the senior agency official.

That would seem to mean that neither the president nor the vice-president can unilaterally declassify information without going back to the person(s) originally responsible for the classification.

And the President would be the “supervisory official” of George Tenet.

But Cheney wouldn’t. But would Bush be considered the Senior Agency Official”? Would he thus have delagatory authority for Cheney to overrule/ignore Tenet, McLaughlin, etc.?

Witney, you listen to the news???? where? anywhere else but here is just BS.

Usually David Schuster is rather thorough about the days events. Must have missed that – sorry had to go to a funeral this afternoon, my mind must be elsewhere.

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If there is a really good post analzing or summarizing the testimony that I have missed, please leave me a comment. All comments are copied to my email.

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Editor and Publisher is citing FDL as a source for it’s Libby story.

I hope they use the shiv quote from Ari’s testimony.

I read an awesome profile of Addington in the New Yorker IIRC, and he is one scary and delusional dude. These ministers without portfolio like Addington, Richard Perle, Wolfowitz, Libby, have seriously undermined our democracy. Hang ‘em high!

I read the same scary article and am not surprised to see Addington pop up.
He seems like Seinfeld’s “Neumann”, PURE EVIL…

Wolfowitz, Cheney, Libby to name a few are all signers of the, gag me, Statement of Principles for The New American Century, A Neoconservative Cult. Bonus players, Jeb Bush, Gary Bauer, Dan Quale!
http://www.newamericancentury……ciples.htm

Consciously or unconsciously, hard to say…but it sure looks like consensus that the man is not possessed of human faculties any longer.