Bush at Center of Intelligence Leak

(The Intelligence Daily) – Attorneys and current and former White House officials close to the investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson said Thursday that President Bush gave Vice President Dick Cheney the authorization in mid-June 2003 to disclose a portion of the highly sensitive National Intelligence Estimate to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward and former New York Times reporter Judith Miller.

These current and former White House officials are among the 36 witnesses who have testified before a grand jury and have been cooperating with the special counsel’s probe since its inception.

The officials, some of whom are attorneys close to the case, added that more than two dozen emails that the vice president’s office said it recently discovered and handed over to leak investigators in February show that President Bush was kept up to date about the circumstances surrounding the effort to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

Details of President Bush’s involvement in the effort to counter the former ambassador’s claims came in a court document filed late Wednesday evening in US District Court in Washington by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, which was first reported by the New York Sun newspaper.

President Bush retained a private attorney when he was interviewed in the leak probe two years ago, specifically about whether he knew about it or had authorized it.

According to four attorneys who over the past two days have read a tran scri pt of the President Bush’s interview with investigators, Bush did not disclose to either investigators or the special counsel that he had authorized Cheney or any other administration official to leak portions of the NIE to Woodward and Miller or any other reporter. Rather, these people said the president said he frowned upon “selective leaks.”

Bush also said during the interview two years ago that he had no prior knowledge that anyone on his staff had been involved in a campaign to discredit Wilson or that individuals retaliated against the former ambassador by leaking his wife’s undercover identity to reporters.

The Probable Cause to Charge Dick Cheney for Mass Murder, Terrorism, and High Treason

Bush has been successful in preventing accountability, so far. The next US Administration has a responsibility to restore the US Constitution and apply the laws of TREASON and SUBVERSION to every illegal act “authorized” by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

Americans are complicit. We bought the lies. We allow Fox News to be Bush’s personal propaganda outlet. We became willing victims of distractions manufactured by the ‘dis-information‘ machine and twisted marketing geniuses. Bush has proven Adolph Hitler correct. Mein Kampf translated into Bush Doctrine has been hiding in plain sight. The foundations of Bush Strategy lay in the old Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament dogma.

Americans do not have the attention span, anymore, to research the roots of our pain. We just attack the pain. We do not know how to heal ourselves … so we self-destruct as we look to simplistic knee-jerk solutions. We have identified with our abductors.

The clock is ticking they will be out of office soon!