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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-09-06 09:53 PM
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Rawstory is #1 on Google news right now under US.
Edited on Sun Apr-09-06 09:54 PM by Bleachers7
I don't have a way to screen shot it on a Mac, but check it while you can. http://news.google.com

The story is:

Bush Administration admits authorizing Libby Iraq leak
Raw Story - 45 minutes ago
A senior administration official confirmed for the first time on Sunday that President Bush had ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq in an effort to rebut critics who said the administration had exaggerated the ...
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-09-06 09:59 PM
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1. I've got the CS Monitor as #1, but it's not much better for *
Why 'leaker in chief' charge harms the president

By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON – Leaks of information out of the White House are as old as the republic. So the assertion that the president himself had authorized the dissemination of then-classified information to select reporters should come as no surprise. Except that the president in question is George W. Bush.
President Bush has long railed against leaks of classified information as a threat to national security; his administration is vigorously investigating unauthorized revelations of classified material to the press about secret overseas prisons and warrantless wiretapping. Now, a revelation of grand jury testimony establishes Bush himself as a player in White House efforts to discredit an Iraq war critic through the use of classified information.

The president is not accused of illegality. And no one questions his legal right to declassify information. But critics are now charging Mr. Bush with hypocrisy - a development that makes efforts to put his presidency back on track all the more daunting.

"Here's why this hurts: It reminds people again that the intelligence was bad and we're in Iraq without end for some of the wrong reasons, and that's at the heart of his 36 percent," says Larry Sabato, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, referring to Bush's job approval rating in recent polls
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-09-06 09:59 PM
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2. Here you go...


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