Dems: Bush denied knowing about leak 8 times

[kpete]

Dems call for Bush to 'come clean,' cite 8 denials

RAW STORY
Published: Thursday April 6, 2006


After today's claim by Ex-VP chief of staff "Scooter" Libby that he was lead to believe the President had approved the leak of classified information to reporters, Democrats have called for the President to set the record straight about his alleged involvement.

"President Bush must fully disclose his participation in the selective leaking of classified information," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid in a brief statement. "It's time for the President to come clean about his involvement in the leak case."

The statement was accompanied by eight of the numerous instances in which Bush or his spokesman, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, denied the President had knowledge of the leak.

That incidents identified by Democrats follow:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Dem_leader_ReidBush_must_come_clean_0406.html

[wake.up.america]

1. Beyond belief!!! I say to America, "Kick his rear - end out now!!!"...

Liar, war monger, selfish imbecile.

Bush will turn around and claim Scooter is mentally ill, suffering from delusions.

[ooglymoogly]

64. will the left wing press now put his 8 lying protestations that no

one from the white house leaked and that he will fire them if he finds them be put on a loop that we see day in day out, hour by hour, like clintons...."i did not have sex with that woman"? hunh?... hunh?.... just askin

[malaise]

2. This is too good

:rofl: :rofl: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[debbierlus]

3. Good response from the dems.

Stay out of the fray of accusations....demand answers.

And, use his own words to hang him.

I like it!

[Dr Fate]

20. An essay on a website is not a response. They need to say this on TV. n/t

n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

36. I totally disagree.

An obscure website has much more power than the telly-vision.

Nobody watches television, fool.

Kneel to the press release, crafted by someone else, that you assign your name to!

[Trevelyan]

55. Please sign Senator Tom Harkin's petition for Censuring the Resident

Petition in Support of the Resolution of Censure

Yes, Tom! Please let your colleagues in the Senate know that the American people demand accountable, law-abiding democracy here at home, not just rhetoric about democracy abroad! I want you to mobilize support for Senator Feingold's Resolution of Censure so that when the Senate returns to session after the Easter recess, a vote on the Senate floor will tell President Bush that no American can be above the law!
http://www.tomharkin.com/nl/CensurePetition.htm
Please use the form below to sign the petition.

Dear Senator Harkin:

We, the undersigned, support your principled stand with Senators Russ Feingold and Barbara Boxer in favor of holding President Bush accountable, and we urge you to bring the Resolution of Censure to the floor of the Senate for a vote. The President has brazenly, arrogantly and unapologetically broken the law - the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA), which prohibits warrantless wiretaps of American citizens. Despite getting caught red-handed, he refuses to stop.

Government must protect Americans' security, and that's why the FISA law allows intelligence services to listen to terrorists' conversations legally - by going to the secret espionage and terrorism court to get a warrant AFTER listening.

We are a nation of laws, not of men. No American is above the law. That most certainly includes the President. If Congress fails to hold him to account through censure, then he will believe that he can continue breaking laws with impunity. This is profoundly dangerous to our democracy.

We admire your courage in standing up to President Bush and saying enough! Now, we urge you to take the next step. We - ordinary Americans deeply concerned for the country we love - ask you to work with your colleagues to support and pass the Resolution of Censure in the Senate.

[pnorman]

4. I'm listening to Randi Rhodes at this moment,

and she's really tearing into Bush, Cheney, & Libby! She points out that it's a simple and clear-cut matter --- obstruction of justice, lying to a federal investigator, and lying to a grand jury. It's that simple.

pnorman

[helderheid]

5. excellent!

[Dhalgren]

6. Frist, et al, will just say that it is the Dictator's word against an

indicted, mentally unhinged criminal. And if Mr. Libby hadn't been involved that that tragically fatal small plane accident yesterday, we would have gotten him to admit it. But, the aspens are turning, after all, and, you know, when they turn they all turn together....

[TankLV]

28. Well then, it is cut and dried. BUSH* is a LIAR - a PROVEN LIAR.

So, I would NEVER take his "word" on anything!

[driver8]

7. Puffy McMoonface will say, "Uh, I cannot comment on an on going

investigation."

Hang the bastards...all of them!!

[sable302]

8. Bingo

This is why he's toast now. No lawbreaking required.

He lied and lied, just like we've been saying.

Cable news is having to reassure people that Bush and Cheny haven't been acused of breaking the law...............yet.

[Amonester]

9. K & R

If it's not the lawbreaking that'll do it, then the OOJ (as in LYING TO THE FBI) & the People definitely...

:kick:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. late last week, I predicted on a thread here that something would break

and I suspect this is it.
A liar and a cheat, a traitor and a fiend.

[MellowOne]

11. Can we impeach him now?

Isn't this enough?

[FrenchieCat]

13. The Pubs won't let us......they'd rather go down with the ship......

This is a job for the MOnth of December 2006 after Dems are back in control!

[Blutodog]

14. Bu$h blameless

Bu$h too blame Eskimos for all of his administrations problems of late.

[SofaKingLiberal]

40. As a quote I heard on the news today says:

"Bush can sell nukes to Iran and this congress wouldn't impeach him."

[bonzotex]

24. yeah can we? can we Please!!!!

You stole my post, by having the audacity to say it first!

Unca Reid? Aunt Pelosi? We done kept all that powder dry, just like you said! Y'all done with stratgeriz'n? ...Triangulat'n?

Seems like we got us carpet-bagging, no good, two-timing, lying, summabitch, stink'n up our house. Kin we kick'em out yet? Had enuff yet?

[darkmaestro019]

46. I'd like to give you cookies for your sig but my transporter no worky

I clicked this thing to say, essentially, what you did.

Isn't this enough? if not, for the love of all that has ever been wonderful--

What WILL be enough?

EDIT: Most of my rant would be better placed as a reply to the OP. You kick ass, though. I just saw Swing Kids and it made me forgive Christian Bale for American Psycho. : )

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. Even Peter

only denied Jesus three times.

Jeez.

[lonestarnot]

15. And Judas BEFORE THE COCK CROWED!

[MADem]

51. My thoughts exactly--so where's the friken rooster? Died a-bird flu?? n/t

[KittyWampus]

58. Good One!

:D

[DoYouEverWonder]

60. Maybe that's why he keeps doing it over and over?

the rooster died from bird-flu. LOL

[WinkyDink]

16. "Led". The past tense is "led".

On point: If it was okey-dokey for the Prez to de-classify the ID of a covert agent AND her op, then why didn't Bushy say so lo those months ago, hmmmm??
Why the jibber-jabber about wanting to find the leaker, etc.?

I hate Republicans more than I hate Satan! Oh, wait.....

P.S. Hey, morans! The USS Fitzgerald is still on course.

[The Wizard]

49. Satan or Cheney

OK, who would you rather have at your summer deck party, Dick Cheney or Satan?

[SammyWinstonJack]

61. There's a difference?

:shrug:

[Sawber1001]

17. I hate

to be the one defending him (and dang you for making me), but I do know a good bit about security and the law regarding it and cannot stand it being mischaracterized.

The President has ultimate declassification authority. By definition, he cannot authorize a leak of classified information. As soon as he authorizes its disclosure to the public, he is declassifying it.

(a) ``Declassification'' means the authorized
change in the status of information from classified
information to unclassified information.

http://www.epic.org/open_gov/eo_12958.html

And before anyone claims, "He has to follow the process", that is not true. Just as Congressmen and women can bypass security procedures to enter buildings at the Capital, people at that level get special priviledges and and allowances.

I've personally witnessed Congressmen being esorted into Top Secret SCIFs with no ID check, no clearance transmission, no background check, no badge, etc. The commander of the installation knew and recognized the Congressmen and, poof, he was in.

If any President declares information as unclassified, it is unclassified. Granted, that is a dumb and dangerous thing to do without first getting the nod from the classifying agency, but it is legal.

[Beetwasher]

23. Too Bad He's Guilty of OBSTRUCTION

Not leaking.

Additionally, it's not so cut and dry as you make it regarding declassification.

I know, sucks for you bushbots that he's a scumsucking, lying piece of shit, but there it is.

He lied to the Feds and denied any knowledge of the leak. He lied, repeatedly to the public too. Guess you don't care about that, huh.

[Ecumenist]

52. Baldfaced lying is a big part of this too...

[TankLV]

30. Wrong - he's making NATIONAL SECURITY decisions on purely POLITICAL

REVENGE purposes, not in any way shape or form to protect the security of this country!

THAT'S why this is so serious.

Enjoy your short stay here.

[OnyxCollie]

37. Alright then, I'll buy that.

But can you explain why he would reveal a covert operative's name and expose Brewster Jennings, a front corporation tracking nuclear proliferation, the very thing he claims he's protecting us from?

I don't care if he had the authority to declassify information. I want to know why he put Americans at risk. WHY DID HE DO THAT?

From the Dept. of Justice to Roberts, Hoekstra, Rockefeller and Harman:

http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/NSA/doj_letter.html


The President stated that these activities are "crucial to our national security." The President further explained that "the unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk. Revealing classified information is illegal, alerts our enemies, and endangers our country."

This is in regards to the NSA wiretaps. Is spying on Americans more important than tracking nuclear weapons?

[tabasco]

41. " but I do know a good bit about security and the law regarding it"

:rofl:

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

So do a lot of people.

It must be hard for the brownshirts to defend this POS.

You are loyal to your fuhrer, not your country. Take your Bush-love somewhere else.

[monarch]

45. Oops!

I guess you outed yourself. All those 24 innocuous postings having to come to this!

[Ecumenist]

50. Bullshit...

That's splitting hairs..and you know it. If he well and truly believed that he had this right, he wouldn't have pussyfooted for the better part of 4 years about seeking out the Leaker. The Leaker was in the mirror each and everyday.


BTW.....

Welcome to DU and enjoy your stay

[Ecumenist]

53. And might I add...

using your so-called Logic, this idiot can order anything done to anyone for any reason, no explanation necessary, all the while FLAUNTING THE OATH OF OFFICE HE TOOK, pledging to defend the constitution, from ALL ENEMIES, foreign AND DOMESTIC!! A congressperson being allowed to bypass a metal detector has ABSOLUTELY NO PARALLEL with outing an agent which cost the lives of people ALL OVER THE GLOBE while continuing the charade of being totally in the dark about who did and said what. IF he was truly assured of the legality of the outing, WHY'D HE LIE over and over again,and for purely political reasons? Riddle me that, Ihate...
Don't pee on my leg and tell it's raining...

[PurpleChez]

18. Fuck "come clean!" RESIGN! NOW! YOU LYING, CRIMINAL FUCKSTICK!

YOU PSYCHOTIC MASS MURDERER! YOU HYPOCRITICAL DRY DRUNK! FUCK YOU, FUCK YOUR SEA HAG MOTHER AND YOUR CRYPT-KEEPER FATHER. FUCK YOU ALL.

[NightOwwl]

21. PurpleChez...

You took the words right out of my mouth! (And you said it much more succinctly than I ever could.)

:toast:

[Dr Fate]

19. Are they going to say this on TV or just to DEM donors who read Rawstory?

???

[neuvocat]

22. Bush is going to jail for this.

I'm certain of that much.

[indie_voter]

25. I wish you were right but I don't think so

IF anything happens to him, he'll be pardoned by a future president (be it republican or democrat, all in the name of 'unity' :p)

[lenegal]

32. I certainly hope the prick is going to jail for this

nt

[Trevelyan]

26. AOL frontpage has headline that Bush O.K.ed leak

Takes so long to load AOL, I came here first. Bush is again challenging the American people and Congress to get him out of the office he stole.

[Starlight]

27. Hang him for treason.

:popcorn:

[Jack Rabbit]

29. Only eight?

Well, gee. That's still higher than Katerine Harris can count.

[porkrind]

31. Remember the "It's the lying" crowd from the Clinton days?

Gee, wonder what they'll say now? Probably say he's a hero and give him the medal of freedom.
:eyes:

[Scott Lee_]

33. Lying to Congress is a major crime

If they can make that case, the Democrats have been handed the smoking gun.

[Voltaire99]

34. As if Bush would even be mildly afraid of Reid

What's Reid going to do, anyway, if Bush doesn't "come clean"?

Not censure him again? Ha ha ha!

[swag]

35. Gee, Peter only denied Jesus 3 times.

Bush must be going for uber-sainthood.

[peekaloo]

38. The ninth one is gonna be a doozy!

:crazy:

[emald]

39. IMPEACH this administration NOW

before the chimp-n-chief can use the nuclear button on the advice of those "experts" who engineered the Iraq debacle. It seems obvious that the lies and criminality is on a scale such that only declaring martial law will allow them an out. Goodness knows we need to stop this whole mess before any more wars are started. Ugly, ugly people.
As a corollary we need to also do away with corporations having "person" status in law. Tax the goddamn money hoovers; obscene profits are sickening to me.

[Imagevision]

42. Bush: “If There Is A Leak Out Of My Administration...

I Want To Know Who It Is. And If The Person Has Violated Law, The Person Will Be Taken Care Of”... <9/30/03>
What does Bush got to do?? shoot someone on live tv before he's thrown out or arrested??!! geeezussss...!

[Trevelyan]

43. Some encouraging news on Fitzgerald's investigating Niger forgeries on Rep

Hinchey's website:
http://www.house.gov/hinchey/

"If what Scooter Libby said to the grand jury is true, then this latest development clearly reveals yet again that the CIA leak case goes much deeper than the disclosure of a CIA agent's identity to the press.

The heart and motive of this case is about the deliberate attempt at the highest levels of this administration to discredit those who were publicly revealing that the White House lied about its uranium claims leading up to the war.

The Bush Administration knew that Iraq had not sought uranium from Africa for a nuclear weapon, yet they went around telling the Congress, the country, and the world just the opposite. When Ambassador Joseph Wilson, Valerie Wilson's husband, publicly spoke out with proof that the administration was not telling the truth on uranium, the administration engaged in an orchestrated plot, which now reportedly includes President Bush, to discredit Ambassador Wilson and dismiss any notion that they had lied about pre-war intelligence.

"It is an absolute disgrace to the institution of the presidency that President Bush authorized members of his administration to disclose select parts of highly classified information from a National Intelligence Estimate in order to make political advances and gain public support. How dare President Bush and Vice President Cheney say they want to prosecute those who leaked the NSA domestic surveillance program when they themselves authorized the disclosure of information from some of the most highly sensitive documents in the government. The White House opposes leaks when the disclosed information hurts them politically, but supports leaks when information advances their political cause.

"Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald recently responded to my request for him to expand his investigation to include the motive behind the leak, which I believe was to discredit Ambassador Wilson's revelation that Iraq never sought uranium from Africa. If so, President Bush and other top members of his administration knowingly lied about uranium to the Congress, which is a crime. It is my belief, as well as the belief of my 39 House colleagues who signed my original letter to Special Counsel Fitzgerald, that he has the authority and obligation to expand his investigation to investigate the lies about uranium, which are the true heart of this case.

"Scooter Libby's camp is currently engaged in a legal proceeding to remove Patrick Fitzgerald from his post and have the case dismissed. This is just further evidence that Scooter Libby doesn't have a leg to stand on. I'm confident that the latest Libby motion will be rejected and that the case will move forward. As such, I am formulating a response to Patrick Fitzgerald's letter to me and will aggressively pursue every avenue needed to ensure that an investigation is conducted into the administration's uranium lies. The heart of the CIA leak case cannot and must not be ignored."

Rep. Hinchey only allows his constituents to write but I would like to know more about Fitz's letter to him and I thought DU had published an article that Hinchey and 39 Congresspersons had asked Fitzgerald to handle the impeachment hearings in the House in Oct/Nov 2005 or am I remembering it wrong???

[ooglymoogly]

65. who says we do not have great men in the democrat party

will our new hero please stand up and take a bow....you mr henchey get the backbone of the year award.

[Botany]

44. two reasons for these glitches

1. Bill Clinton
2. Liberal Media

[Speed8098]

47. He's got to go

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usleak0407,0,3224186.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

Vote: Will the indictment topple Bush?

Do you think the Libby indictment will bring down the Bush administration?

58.8%
Yes, the CIA leak scandal is the last straw. (1540 responses)

23.3%
No, Bush will made a comeback just like Reagan did. (610 responses)

17.9%
I'm not sure, only time will tell. (469 responses)

How can one man wreak so much havoc in 5 short years? :nuke:

[Trevelyan]

56. the Libby indictment will bring down the Bush administration

Do you think the Libby indictment will bring down the Bush administration?

58.8%
Yes, the CIA leak scandal is the last straw. (1551 responses)

23.3%
No, Bush will made a comeback just like Reagan did. (616 responses)

17.9%
I'm not sure, only time will tell. (472 responses)

2639 total responses

http://www.newsday.com:/news/nationworld/nation/ny-cialeak-board,0,209735.graffitiboard?coll=ny-top-headlines=Talk Back: CIA leak
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== My message to sign Sen. Harkin's petition did not appear in NewsDay Comments. http://www.tomharkin.com/nl/CensurePetition.htm

[darkmaestro019]

48. IMPEACH! IMPEACH! IMPEACH! Can I get this SKYWRITTEN?

I was kidding about the skywritten but now that I think about it, is anyone around here capable of this? Or do you know anyone who is? Do you have to get licensed? Can you lie about what you're gonna write, lol?

IMPEACH! How freakin hard is it? Does he have to eat a WASP fetus on live TV washing it down with bourbon with a cocaine moustache still on? Fling himself into a vat of money and roll around laughing HA HA FOOLED YOU like a loon? What? Perhaps line up most of the Middle East and personally shoot each man, woman, and child in the head?

This scares the shit out of me, for fk's sake--the fact that apparently ALLLLLLLLLLL THIS is not enough to get a president impeached! That means we're completely, totally, utterly fking unsafe and any crazy fk with enough money can buy into the Whitehaus and act however he wants for eight years!

EDIT: I was gonna throw in something about sodomizing young boys but as we've seen that's SOfuckingP for the GOfuckingP....it's just HAZING when they do it. When I do it, it's against God and destroys marriage....

Have they come up for a new word for genocide when they do it? Oh yeah. Liberation.

Have they come up with a new term for lying, cheating, breaking the law, fraud, theft, and cronyism when THEY do it? Oh yeah. The Bush Administration.

Here's a word for you evil regressive feudalist bastards that you may want to look up: KARMA

[renate]

63. Hey, I mega-like that phrase--"SOP for the GOP"

I really do! Especially since it's SO true--all the corruption these days is entirely GOP; it really is SOP for them.
It's a great, snappy little line that a person can practically dance to (as long as the "fucking"s before the Ps are left out--they're excellent except they slow things down and interfere with the rhythm. "SOfuckingP for the GOfuckingP" is slow enough to be a waltz, but "SOP for the GOP," say it a couple of times and your toes just start a-tapping).

Also and BTW, your entire post totally cracks me up.

[Felix Mala]

54. Remember when he promised the "wrong doers" would be punished?

He said investigators were investigating every member of the White House staff in their investigation. He could have saved a lot of time and money by just turning himself in.

[KittyWampus]

57. And Peter denied Jesus 3 times after the Crucifixtion

[rman]

59. So, he mis-spoke 8 times

It's just incompetence, what's the big deal?

:sarcasm:

[AntiFascist]

62. Direct evidence that the Commander in Stink has no problem...

telling complete 180 degree lies over an over to the American people. Enough is enough.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/6/61854/9150