Amazing! CBS eve news covering Libby ratting Cheney out

[karlrschneider]

...

[Connie_Corleone]

1. NBC covered it too.

[benburch]

2. Sometimes you have to cover a story...

If it is big enough, and this is, you ignore it at your peril.

It is a form of the classic Prisoner's Dilemma problem.

[NJCher]

3. just saw it

They said it was "embarrassing!"




Cher

[helderheid]

5. they are embarrassing for not reporting the truth for so long.

[central scrutinizer]

7. so TREASON is "embarrassing"?

Shows how far our standards have fallen.

[LiberalEsto]

16. Cheney: "Was my face red..."

"when my boy Scooter spilled the beans about my okaying him to out that Plame dame. Ten slaps with a wet noodle for me!"

[renate]

4. is it spin or is it the story from the National Journal? n/t

[Connie_Corleone]

9. It's pretty much the story from the NJ, but...

They BOTH said the latest development was "embarrassing" to the White House!

It's not embarrassing! It's a friggin' CRIME!!!!!!!

[Just Me]

6. eeeEEEE-YES!!!! YES!! YES!!! YES!!! eom

[applegrove]

8. We forget they are on a longer news-cycle than we are. This was

published this afternoon. Maybe they are getting smart and saving the real news for their prime-time hours.

Don't know.

But I think we need to give them 1/2 a day to get on a story.

[RDANGELO]

10. One more tick up the food chain. n/t

[AndyA]

11. Wolfe Blitzer is covering this story on CNN also.

I just heard the plug for Situation Room, and it was mentioned. Wonder how the Repugs are going to spin this one?

[emulatorloo]

12. Repugs will spin it the same way they always do -- lie about Joe Wilson

lie about Saddam and Nukes
lie about Valerie Plame's Status
Obsfugate and Lie some more.

Hey WELCOME TO DU!!!!!! :hi:

[berner59]

13. CNN Wolfie top story...7pm...

wow...it's got legs...

[The_Casual_Observer]

15. The release of all those "victories" over the terrorists

today was no coincidence.

[PhilipShore]

14. WP/AP: Libby: White House 'Superiors' OK'd Leaks

Washington Post/AP
Libby: White House 'Superiors' OK'd Leaks
February 9, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020901745.html

WASHINGTON -- A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that his superiors authorized him to give secret information to reporters as part of the Bush administration's defense of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq, according to court papers.