The revelation that President Bush authorized former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to divulge classified information about Iraq fits a pattern of selective leaks of secret intelligence to further the administration's political agenda.Leakers, liars, losers. Busted.
Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top officials have reacted angrily at unauthorized leaks, such as the exposure of a domestic wiretapping program and a network of secret CIA prisons, both of which are now the subject of far-reaching investigations.
But secret information that supports their policies, particularly about the Iraq war, has surfaced everywhere from the U.N. Security Council to major newspapers and magazines. Much of the information that the administration leaked or declassified, however, has proved to be incomplete, exaggerated, incorrect or fabricated.
The whole story is basically about how the administration only leaks bullshit that supports their untenable positions. It quotes the McClellatron’s “Don’t question the king” rigmarole in which he parses the difference between “providing declassified information to the public when it's in the public interest and leaking classified information that involved sensitive national intelligence regarding our security,” and basically responds by saying, “Still not good enough, you nitwits. We’ve examined the value of that information, and we’ve found it utterly lacking.”
Incomplete, exaggerated, incorrect or fabricated. Good stuff.
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