Bush leaks CIA operative, gets impeached - so we're stuck with Cheney?

[FormerRepublican]

This is what concerns me. And given that Libby is the one outting the President for his role in this, might this even be a power grab by Cheney to seize the Presidency? Does Bush authorizing the leak let Cheney off the hook?

:scared:

[stop the bleeding]

1. No Cheney will go away as well in this scandal, also you wont

have to worry about Hastert because Conyers will be House leader after the elections this year.

President Conyers????

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Now, there's a thought!

Even if just as interim until 2008....would be awesome!

[npincus]

2. Cheney's in it up to his eyeballs- don't worry

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Cheney leaked, too.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aTAo1LZSEZDA&refer=us

Bush Approved Leak of Iraq Arms Intelligence, Libby Testified

<snip>
``Defendant testified that the vice president later advised him that the president had authorized defendant to disclose the relevant portions of the NIE,'' Fitzgerald wrote.

Cheney previously has said he has authority to release classified information, as does the president.

``There's an executive order that specifies who has classification authority, and obviously it focuses first and foremost on the president, but also includes the vice president,'' Cheney said in a Feb. 15 interview on Fox News.

The administration had no immediate comment on the court document, which was filed last night.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Would seem to me they both leaked...stuck with Hastert

which would probably be as good as having been stuck with Gerald Ford

[theHandpuppet]

8. But with this whole mess the Dems will have Hastert by the balls...

... and the rest of the corrupt, lying-ass GOP on a short leash!

[stop the bleeding]

11. President Conyers

once we take back the House Conyers would be the leader not Hastert - how does that sound??

[helderheid]

5. no Cheney also authorized - they'll all get thrown out

[saltpoint]

7. I obviously wasn't at any of those meetings, but I just don't see how Dick

Cheney can avoid blame when his own chief of staff was authorized to leak classified info on Valerie Plame.

There isn't a soul on earth who thinks that Cheney is some marginally-interested, disengaged bystander. He's widely and accurately perceived as the brains of the operation. An evil brain to be sure, but certainly at the control panel night and day while Junior is down at the ranch in Crawford clearin' brush.

I think Cheney is even more vulnerable legally than Bush, since this leak was executed out of his office.

[Virginia Dare]

9. I think you may be onto something there....

Cheney just threw Bush under the bus...God knows where this will lead.

[clmbohdem]

10. This is a conspiracy to defraud the government into going to war.

If this is to be the charge, a bunch in the White House could be gone

[H2O Man]

12. This is the NIE

not Plame's ID. Related, but distinct.

[bowens43]

13. Actually, Cheney did the leaking

Bush authorized it......two impeachments after we take back the house in the November elections?