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Leak Firestorm

From Josh Marshall, and now a million other places, we're told that I. Lewis Libby has testified under oath that he was given the green light from the president to leak classified information to bolster the administration's phony case for war:

A former White House aide under indictment for obstructing a leak probe, I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded "National Intelligence Estimate" on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of President Bush, according to a new court filing from the special prosecutor in the case.

The court papers from the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, do not suggest that Mr. Bush violated any law or rule. However, the new disclosure could be awkward for the president because it places him, for the first time, directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was provided to a reporter.

The original story comes from the New York Sun.

What a shock. The president may have been involved in a politcal hit job. When is everyone going to wake up and realize that he's nothing more than a Republican monkey wrench born from the school of hacks like Lee Atwater and the College Republicans? End of story.

Frankly, this is getting old. We can all dive into the minutia and discuss whether this is legal or not, but for fuck's sake, don't we already have a pretty clear picture of the whole deal here?

As for me, this is becoming a fucking bore. Here's the unspoken truth: President George W. Bush is a fraud and a criminal. Anyone have any questions ?

Update: [04/06/2006 11:18:OO PM]

Don't take my word for it, go read Molly Ivins' account, from 2003:

The Uncompassionate Conservative

posted by FuzzFinger @ 4/06/2006 08:55:00 PM