"If they wanted to declassify information to sell this war whey didn't the

[Maraya1969]

just call a press conference" - Contessa Brewer on MSNBC (I might have paraphrased a bit)

Excellent point!!!! Why try to sell a war by doing surreptitious things? If it is all legal why not just come out and say it?

[acmavm]

1. Then maybe someone would have had the brains to ask what other

information they had classified that maybe the American public should know about. Like whether or not what they were saying was true, that they had proof Iraq had WMDs or the aluminum tubes were positively for nuclear weapons, etc.

[Deja Q]

2. Exactly. That's what they'd do to Clinton/Gore/Kerry/anyoneelse.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Who was the Republican Clown ???

Saying Joe Wilson is the Leaker????
What a KKKomplete stooge!!

Rove is throwing all the bloody chum
he can muster into the waters to
throw the press off his master's ass.

I think they are just making matters worse
for themselves. Hooray.

[salin]

4. This is why the spin doesn't work... it fails the basic common sense test.

[Maraya1969]

5. PC = Protecting the Constitution. I like that eom

[Kablooie]

6. Of course the simple answer is ...

They didn't want to declassify the info.
They wanted to secretly leak still classified information to destroy an opponent knowing full well it was false and he was correct.
This way they don't have anyone investigating how bogus their info is.
They only spout 'declassify' once they are caught.

[gulliver]

7. It is an excellent question.

Wish someone would ask it...

We know the answer of course. This is all just part of the Bushie's (yet unpunished) use of the NYT's Judith Miller for propaganda.