Cheney authorized Libby to leak classified information
Including a "then-still highly classified National Intelligence Estimate," according to court correspondence recently filed by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Scooter Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush misadministration's use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq, according to attorneys and court records.
The public correspondence does not mention the identities of the "superiors" who authorized the leaking of the classified information, but people with firsthand knowledge of the matter identified one of them as Cheney. Libby also testified that he worked closely with then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove in deciding what information to leak to the press to build public support for the war, and later, postwar, to defend the administration's use of prewar intelligence.
The public correspondence does not mention the identities of the "superiors" who authorized the leaking of the classified information, but people with firsthand knowledge of the matter identified one of them as Cheney. Libby also testified that he worked closely with then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove in deciding what information to leak to the press to build public support for the war, and later, postwar, to defend the administration's use of prewar intelligence.
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Fun fact: even though it's looking more and more like Karl Rove leaked highly classified national security info, he still has security clearance.
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