Cheney: "When the VP orders that a CIA op be outed, that means that the

[jsamuel]

information isn't classified anymore." (he didn't actually say this, but according to the thread below, that is what he is saying)

what an ASS!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x439893


Reminds me of the "When the President does it, that means it's legal" - Nixon

[mzmolly]

1. Boy, I bet the CIA intel officials feel quite secure in their positions?

Didn't Mehlman say he was running on "National Security" in 2006? :rofl:

[KurtNYC]

2. Legal issues aside - WHAT A TERRIBLE STRATEGY!

What the f*** kind of message is that sending to our agents and those who work with them??? Those people risk their lives to get decent intel and this guy says he intends to go off half-cocked any time he feels like it?

[jsamuel]

3. yeah, I don't think Fitz is going to go for that one!

[Wickerman]

4. He should be impeached for simply thinking that

let alone acting on it.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Perhaps Will Pitt will want that quote for his radio debate today...

:shrug:

[Wickerman]

7. lol

afraid its not really very democratic, though is it? Actually, I think Cheney should be impeached simply for being Cheney. Good thing I ain't in charge.

[blm]

6. Then Cheney LIED TO BUSH about his role, or Bush LIED to American people

that he didn't know who leaked. Surely, Cheney would have told Bush he used his power to declassify the info. Right?

[ColonelTom]

10. Ah, no - then there was no "leak."

It was a "disclosure." :eyes:

[blm]

12. PRE-MEDITATED - they started planning to out Plame and amended the order

so Cheney can do it - this just proves PRE-MEDITATION to a prosecutor.

[ColonelTom]

13. Premeditated what? n/t

[blm]

16. Media has said that Fitgerald couldn't prove conspiracy on Plame outing.

Seems to me that this executive order on March 25, 2003, giving him the power to declassify at will is proof for Fitzgerald that their was a plan in place just as Wilson claims since early March, 2003.

[Beelzebud]

8. Sounds like Nixon. n/t

[jsamuel]

9. exactly

[roguevalley]

11. so that is going to be scooter's defense. pathetic.

[H2O Man]

14. Those posts have serious errors.

Cheney is known to have instructed Libby to share classified NIE with reporters. While many suspect he also did the same with Plame, that is not stated in any of the court papers.

[jsamuel]

15. thanks, your right that people are reading into this a lot