WH Daily Briefing on now! (12:55 eastern)

[soothsayer]

[CottonBear]

1. link:

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[Poll_Blind]

2. Thank you! K&R! I'm getting the popcorn! n/t

PB

[Maddy McCall]

3. McClellan's BS session demonstrates that this administration....

is done. Stick a fork in 'em.

"I'll be glad to go back and look at that transcript."

OVER AND OVER. "De-classified."

The media is turning on the president.

The right is turning on the right. More and more will come out now.

He's saying that Plame's identity was declassified, and this whole thing is about Dems who fail to know the difference in classified and declassified.

If I weren't politically saavy, I'd still know that he's wrong on this one.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Apparently the CIA didn't know it was de-classified

they were the ones who requested a criminal investigation

[aquart]

6. It's now US policy to expose secret agents

if we're annoyed at their spouses?

So, how's secret agent recruiting going?

[MissWaverly]

5. yes, apparently that was the pre-911 procedure

where the declassification was discussed by all parties involved who would have a chance
to discuss the impact of the declassification, now we have the WH staff saying that Bush
has a right to declassify anything and the minute he does, boom it's declassified and that
they don't have to notify anyone, so they can have partial declassification or in
any words, anonymous declassification so no one will be held accountable for the action