Specter urges Bush to come forward about Iraq data leak

[dogday]

WASHINGTON -- President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney need to explain what classified information was authorized to be leaked to reporters in July 2003 and why, Sen. Arlen Specter said yesterday.

"I think that there has to be a detailed explanation precisely as to what Vice President Cheney did, what the president said to him, and an explanation from the president as to what he said so that it can be evaluated," Mr. Specter, R-Pa., the Judiciary Committee chairman, said of last week's revelation in a court document that Mr. Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, testified that Mr. Cheney told him Mr. Bush approved leaking parts of a classified document about intelligence estimates of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Mr. Specter said on "Fox News Sunday" that he had heard yesterday morning about a report, first published by The Associated Press, that a lawyer close to the case said Mr. Bush "didn't tell the vice president specifically what to do, but just said get it out."

Mr. Bush approved providing information from the then-classified October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said in a memorandum filed in federal court Wednesday. The prosecutor cited Mr. Libby's testimony to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06100/680980-84.stm

[acmejack]

1. Soon Arlen will realize that *co holds him in contempt just like us

They have no respect for Congress or any other branch of Government, they are the great and powerful Unitary Executive!

[dogday]

2. It will be interesting to see exactly what Spector

does or if he is just playing for the cameras.....