Okay, So Let's Get This Straight-A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

[kpete]

Okay, So Let's Get This Straight: On Monday, Bush Admitted That he Lied About Leaking a Lie to Smear Someone Who Revealed the Truth About His Lying

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

Okay, so let's get this straight.

Bush admits he selectively leaked classified information that wasn't declassified until days after he and Cheney had Scooter Libby leak it to Judith Miller, the pro-war megaphone for the New York Times publication of Bush lies. Bush "authorizes" this leak at a time that he is claiming that if he ever finds the leaker, he will basically fire him, meaning himself. Then he continues a public and Department of Justice vendetta against leakers, but not himself: the leaker-in-chief.

Okay, now Libby is sent out with the leak in order to debunk Joe Wilson's accounting of the truth about the non-existent Iraq-Niger uranium deal. Libby actually makes language up that doesn't exist in the document to further the lie that Wilson exposed. In short, Libby selectively used classified information to try to smear the truth with more lies.

Okay, it gets better (or actually, worse). When Bush is exposed through Libby's revealing to Patrick Fitzgerald that Bush gave the green light to leak a lie to cover up a lie and prevent more lies from being exposed, Bush admits to leaking, but tells the American people that it was to get the "truth out."

Are you following this? (And we haven't even gotten into the actual Valerie Plame outing to Novak yet. We are still in the sideshow.)

If this sounds like some farce, remember that thousands upon thousands of Americans and Iraqis have died in this farce -- and the nation is nearly bankrupt.

No nation can long endure when such bird brains, criminals, liars, cheats, and incompetents are running the nation.

more at:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/10038

[stop the bleeding]

1. yep

(And we haven't even gotten into the actual Valerie Plame outing to Novak yet. We are still in the sideshow.)

[xultar]

2. Key is LEAKED PRIOR to DECLASSIFICATION!

[stop the bleeding]

4. details - schmetails - it was only leaked about 10 days before it was

declassified, that is just those pesky rules getting in the way again:sarcasm:

[ChiciB1]

3. Bird Brains Or Not... They Keep Getting Away With It...

and as long as we have Hillary out there doing HER thing as she has been, I daresay we aren't getting much help.

Already hearing flak about Hillary & Kennedy get on the Immigration bandwagon, when they couldn't even get on the Anti-War bandwagon!

[htuttle]

5. “Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive”.

It's clear that they are often counting on us forgetting their earlier lies.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Nice and concise!

[donkeyotay]

7. It all makes sense except for the "Bush admitted" part. That's not right.

He never admits to anything. I think he told another lie instead of "admitting." Didn't he say that he had declassified instead of leaking so he could tell us the truth instead of lying?

It should read, "On Monday, Bush told more lies about whether he Lied About Leaking a Lie to Smear Someone Who Revealed the Truth About His Lying."