Senator Asks Bush, Cheney for Explanation(Specter)

[cal04]

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should speak publicly about their involvement in the CIA leak case so people can understand what happened, a leading Republican senator said Sunday. "We ought to get to the bottom of it so it can be evaluated by the American people," said Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In a federal court filing last week, the prosecutor in the case said Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, testified before a grand jury that he was authorized by Bush, through Cheney, to leak information from a classified document that detailed intelligence agencies' conclusions about weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq.

A lawyer knowledgeable about the case said Saturday that Bush declassified sensitive intelligence in 2003 and authorized its public disclosure to rebut Iraq war critics, but he did not specifically direct that Libby be the one to disseminate the information. "I think it is necessary for the president and vice president to tell the American people exactly what happened," Specter told "Fox News Sunday."

"There's been enough of a showing that the president of the United States owes a specific explanation to the American people ... about exactly what he did," Specter said. Libby faces trial, likely in January, on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying to the grand jury and investigators about what he told reporters about CIA officer Valerie Plame.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060409/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak

[bullimiami]

1. 'please sir, can you explain?' specter = useless chickenshit.

get a spine or resign.

[tom_paine]

2. Specter is a gutless weasel...his words have the force of a cream pie

The Busheviks laugh at him.

Frankly, so do I. He could perform this same function in the Chinese Congress of People's Deputies and he wouldn;t even notice the difference.

[movonne]

3. Explain what...we are always asking them to explain and where

does that get us..it is treason any way you look at it..we must get this whole administration out and now...if they start bombing Iran we will be in deep shit.