Your honor, he stamped a number of his documents with SCI and Top Secret, including the note from Cheney. Whether or not he would believe this would fall into the other areas. [Brilliant!!!! She’s using their classification overstretch back on them!!!]

YES! I knew that this haphazard “classification” of documents had a weird smell about it. I’m not a lawyer nor a government security expert, but there was something very strange about that discussion in testimony (was it two days ago?) about how some documents were marked with different levels of classification after they had been used, when the Govt. was requesting documents be gathered for an investigation. The whole discussion about how some were copies, some were originals, and it wasn’t clear who stamped them or if they were stamped “classified” on copies AND originals.

Fascinating stuff. I’m eager to hear how Walton allows this to proceed.

It seems that Fitz made a point that Addington was unfamiliar with the “Treated As Top Secret/SCI” stamp on these documents…that came from one source…the desk of Lewis I. Libby!

Here’s another:

http://wid.ap.org/documents/li…..528A01.pdf

Which means that Libby considered the information within them “Classified” and yet here he was leaking their contents to the media!

Christy Hardin Smith @
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Diane at 13 — That would be folks in the legal department and high up in the CIA hierarchy, and they make those determinations based on a whole lot of factors, including whether the information could out sources and methods, whether the information is relevent to the proceedings at hand, whether it is part of an ongoing intel operation, and a whole bunch of other things. It’s the same procedure that you use for redacting any document for court, but with intelligence, there are so many more layers of consideration for national security secrecy and security. And that includes especially protecting agents and assets.

Except when the document is contemporaneous notes of their media strategy …

http://wid.ap.org/documents/li…..X10401.PDF

The only thing in that note which is “Top Secret / SCI” (secure compartmentalized information) is that wife works for CP.

There was a stamp in LIBBY’s OFFICE that stated “Treated as TOP SECRET”
[Note: Addington stated he had never seen such a stamp before under questioning by Fitz…who seemed to make a point of it…perhaps it relates to Fitz’s Asst Prosecutor Bonamici’s last comments about allowing in “classified information”]!

With all due respect, capeman, a trial is not conducted for the jury’s convenience. Bummer that the jurors sit around twidlin their thumbs (at extemely low pay). I guess that’s why they call jury service our “Civic Duty” rather than a ‘parttime job’.

Could you be more condescending? I know why a trial is conducted. It is just that a trial of “this magnitude” is rare and the proceedings long enough without unnecessary crap delaying things further.
Even though the jurors had the morning off, that is one more morning that they are going to spend at the end of the trial. All of the arguments here could have been handled in pleadings beforehand, especially at this stage of the trial. The defense knows what’s coming at this stage and what the prosecution’s doing (hello discovery) so any problem they had with the evidence being introduced should have been haggled out long ago.
There is an arrogance in yours and Christie’s (@24) replies. We all pay the salaries and overtime. You seem to be saying that since the jury isn’t paid, it’s better to take up their time than the paid help. Is it any wonder that people don’t like the legal profession?

All of the players, including Rumsfeld, are loving their active roles, like nothing happened. The People have been manip’d again.

The Neo Cons, include Kissinger, Baker and all the usual suspects. The A.E.I.’s membership is still standing on top of the mountain of skulls. Nothing has changed, except to send MORE troops.

The deceptive techniques of Mr. Strauss seem to trick even many of those in the legal profession.

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Molly, you are inside everything I do.

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Christy Hardin Smith @ 17

Diane at 13 — That would be folks in the legal department and high up in the CIA hierarchy, and they make those determinations based on a whole lot of factors, including whether the information could out sources and methods, whether the information is relevent to the proceedings at hand, whether it is part of an ongoing intel operation, and a whole bunch of other things. It’s the same procedure that you use for redacting any document for court, but with intelligence, there are so many more layers of consideration for national security secrecy and security. And that includes especially protecting agents and assets.

“Asset”, in this specific case, would be Brewster Jennings, which was the long-running company that fronted for CIA in its Middle East WMD data collection system. Losing Valerie Plame also caused Brewster Jennings to collapse. B/J was THE wmd-collecting mechanism in the ME, as I understand it. So at the very time in our nation’s history that Bush is saying that M.E. WMD’s are the USA’s biggest threat, Bush is also casually destroying America’s best intelligence operation that is working to breakup M.E. WMD operations. Bushco not only destroyed Valerie Plame’s career, he also destroyed one of America’s frontline defenses against M.E. WMDs – America’s Greatest Threat, per Bush.

Maybe Bush only lit one match, but he burned down the whole fucking building with that one match.

What’s behind the scenes of the leak may be far more threatening than just the destruction of the career of a top agent. Yesterday’s dkos thread bears highlighting, that the outing had two goals

Mulkum @ 74

Does anyone else remember seeing on the news one day where a document was shown that Bush had (some months in the past) given Cheney all of the rights of the Presidency?
Could it have been about Cheney de-classifying the info about V.Plame-Wilson?
Does a President have the authority to out an undercover CIA agent if they just feel like it?

Cheney would say yes.

Oh. he did that in january 2001 ….

Does anyone else remember seeing on the news one day where a document was shown that Bush had (some months in the past) given Cheney all of the rights of the Presidency?
Could it have been about Cheney de-classifying the info about V.Plame-Wilson?
Does a President have the authority to out an undercover CIA agent if they just feel like it?

Cheney would say yes.

MRJJ@42:
I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!!

I think this article, aside from showing Bush is a liar (yet again), also demonstrates why it is critically important that political officers from the Ministry of Truth serve as apparatchniks in all governmental agencies.

While WE’re all waiting, along with the jury, how ’bout grabbing some of Molly’s pots & pans, computers & pens, faxes & phones, & making loud noises twd:

-legislative twig of OUR govt (YES, including pugs!),

-every pol who ever even hiccupped about running for prez,

-local newspapers,

-media & other hotshot-execs

-shrub & shooter (why not?! don’t they deserve to be pestered?),

-talk shows,

-tv “polls/schmolls” (scientific or not – makee no difference),

-every petition you can scare up from MoveOn, ACLU, TrueMajority, DNC etc. etc. etc.

GUILT TRIP with apologies for the sensitive:

Molly was still publishing JUST LAST WEEK!
What ELSE you got goin’ while we, and the jury, wait?
What’s OUR excuse?!!!

(I loved her too, so don’t start with me. You KNOW what she wants us to do. She made it all too clear. Bless her!)