Even Fox News's judge says Cheney can't declassify Plame info

[underpants]

IF that is what Dick was talking about.

Interesting.
From Newshounds-they watch Fox so you don't have to.
http://www.newshounds.us/2006/02/16/napolitano_weighs_in_on_vicepresidents_authority_to_declassify_information.php#more

Napolitano (JAN) explained that there are two categories of classified information, that which the Congress has made classified and which Congress has made it a crime to reveal, and that which the present president or any of his predecessors has classified . In the second case, the president can declassify what (s)he or his/her predecessors has classified, or delegate to the vice-president or a group of advisors to declassify same, but none of them can declassify what Congress has classified.

Bush has (sic) signed a "very lengthy, well-reasoned, detailed" executive order that lays out specifically what his advisors and Cheney may declassify. Whether he's done it (declassified material) or not is another story.

Gibson asked if that explained why (if) Cheney told Scooter Libby that he could reveal that Joe Wilson's wife was a covert CIA agent?

No, said JAN, because the identity of undercover federal agents is in the category of information that Congress has classified. No one but Congress could declassify that.

JAN goes on to say that there is still some wiggle room: Cheney could still say that it wasn't he who sent Wilson to Niger, it was that CIA agent, his wife, because "the nature of what agents do would fall under the president's power to keep secret or not to keep secret. It is only who the agents truly are that the Congress has made a crime to reveal. So there is wiggle room here. But the VP in his own inimitable way just teased us with it last night! I would love to know what he's talking about!"

[rurallib]

1. May be time for Cheney to take Napolitano hunting

[leveymg]

2. Fox misses the point: classified data released before it was declassified

by the CIA. The classified CIA document was revealed by Scooter to Judy Miller when the two had breakfast at the St. Regis Hotel on July 8, 2003. That NIE wasn't declassified by the CIA until ten days later. Only the originating agency can declassify. Issue the indictments to Cheney, and start the trial, already.

The outing of Valerie was a separate, but related, crime.

[underpants]

3. Ah I see

Thanks I am having a hard time keeping up with their crimes ...they seem to have had the same problem. No matter Pat Roberts will negotiate something and forget the rest I am sure.

[Supersedeas]

4. but but but the Executive Order give the VP additional powers