My Letter to Chairman Dean: Dems Demand Release of 6/19/03 PDB

[leveymg]

Dear Chairman Dean and DNC staff:

This is to encourage the Committee to demand the declassification and release of the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) dated 06-19-03 referenced by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in his recent letter to lawyers representing former White House advisor, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. There is reason to believe that document may point to foreknowledge by the President and Vice President of the illegal "outing" of undercover CIA Valerie Plame. More on this below:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/6/12248/27290
FITZ LETTER: Bush, Cheney Now Prosecution Targets?
by leveymg

In court papers published late last week, Patrick Fitzgerald revealed that his office has obtained at least one Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) that discusses the trip to Niger taken by Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the husband of Valerie Plame.

While it was previously known that Bush and Cheney had been interviewed by Fitzgerald about the outing of Plame, this is the first indication that the prosecution in the case has started to look into documentation that might answer the question of questions: "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"

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Lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby had requested Bush's PDBs along with other classified documents as a part of discovery. Fitzgerald responded with a letter dated January 9 filed in federal court late last week, http://www.fas.org/...

Fitzgerald wrote: "As you are well aware, the documents referred to as Presidential Daily Briefs ("PDBs") are extraordinarily sensitive documents which are usually highly classified. We have never requested copies of any PDBs. However, we did ask for relevant documents relating to Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife; Valerie Plame Wilson... and the trip undertaken by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson to Niger in 2002... from the Executive Branch of the President and the Office of the Vice President.

"We also sought from the Central Intelligence Agency documents relating to the same item.... relating to the same items, with the exception that the CIA was not requested to produce documents in the files regarding Valerie Plame and Wilson that were not related directly or indirectly to Ambassador Wilson's travel to Niger in February 2002.

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"In response to our requests, we have received a very discrete amount of material relating to PDBs. We have provided to Mr. Libby and his counsel (or are in the process of providing such documents consistent with the process of a declassification review) copies of any pages in our possession reflecting discussions of Joseph Wilson, Valerie Wilson and/or Wilson's trip to Niger contained in (or written on) copies of the President's Daily Brief (PDB) in the redacted form in which we received them."

It is likely that on June 19, 2003, Bush received the PDB discussing the Wilson trip . . .

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1. I was waiting for this next shoe to start to drop thanks leveymg - K&R

:toast:

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2. jeez I can not believe this thread is dying - kicking n/t

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3. I have a question..

Is it possible to have this released while it still part of on going investigation? - you know Snotty's talking point.

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4. kicking for awareness n/t

[mattclearing]

5. Why not demand it yourself by filing a FOIA?

It's great if Dean requests it, but it doesn't really matter who gets it.

[leveymg]

6. Federation of American Scientists just did a FOIA

See, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x360108

[mattclearing]

7. Excellent. n/t