Cheney on the record confirmed classified, leaked national security info published in the Weekly Substandard.
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Clark, former supreme allied commander of NATO, said Sunday on
NBC News' Meet the Press that by endorsing The Weekly
Standard article, Cheney was essentially confirming the contents
of leaked intelligence reports.
"Now, the standard rule on anything like this is never to confirm it
because if you confirm something like this, you're giving away
maybe sources and methods," Clark said. "The vice president said
that that was the best explanation of the connection between
al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein. So he's essentially using a leaked
memo to confirm his predisposition to believe that Saddam had
something to do with 9-11."
"That's playing politics with national security," Clark said. "It risks
our intelligence community, our sources and methods; it's wrong.
And as president I won't tolerate that."
Clark's senior foreign policy adviser, James Rubin, a former
assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration, said
Clark was calling for an investigation by White House legal
counsel into Cheney's statements to the Rocky Mountain News.
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http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/politics/article/0,1299,DRMN_35_2604832,00.html:evilgrin:
Go Clark, go!
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