LAT EDITORIAL "Leaker in chief - He is either a leaker or a hypocrite"

[kpete]

EDITORIAL
Leaker in chief
April, 7 2006

THE LATEST REVELATIONS in the investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame raise a question that every Sunday school student is familiar with: Can God make a boulder so heavy that he himself cannot lift it?

For President Bush, the question is more like this: If information comes from the president, is it still a leak? And if that information is classified, by revealing it, has he declassified it? After all, the president has the legal power to declassify information. And a leak authorized by the president is — by most definitions, at least — not a leak, but an officially sanctioned release of public information.

The legal and political ramifications of the papers prosecutors filed late Wednesday in the case against former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby remain unclear. But if what Libby asserts is true, the president would be faced with an uncomfortable choice: He is either a leaker or a hypocrite.

In the filings, Libby says he was told by Vice President Dick Cheney that Bush had given presidential permission for Libby "to disclose certain information" to Judith Miller, then a reporter for the New York Times, about a classified prewar intelligence report. Libby has been charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation into who "outed" Plame.

more at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-ed-bush07apr07,0,3150654.story?coll=la-home-commentary

[global1]

1. What If Cheney Was Lying About The Presidential Permission To Disclose....

certain info? Do you think that is how Rove will get * out from under the bus. Will they throw Cheney to the wolves?