When Whinners Scream About The So-Called "Leak" By President Bush

Now we have some deaf and hearing bloggers screaming that it was president Bush who leaked classified information in the Libby case. Now, for those who do not understand, it's impossible for the president of the United States to "leak" classified information soley by virtue of an executive order from 1982.

Simply put for the Simpletons, when the president of the United State says something classified and he broadcasts it, it is immediately declassified. It is well within the President's powers and granted authority to declassify such information and use it to answer the questions of the press. President Clinton did the same thing to justify his actions on the bombing of the al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan! So what did president Bush do? He informed Cheney to pass on the now declassified information to the press.

Get with it folks. Stop being hypocrites by playing up with the MSM press motives to try and slam president Bush at every turn. Again, it's IMPOSSIBLE for a president of the United States to leak information since a president has the sole authority granted to him/her by act of Congress signed in 1982 and under the Constitution.

Classified information belongs to the executive branch. Under the Constitution, the executive power is vested in a single official, the president. As Justice Scalia pointed out in his classic dissent in Morrison v. Olson, this does not mean some of the executive power; it means all of the executive power. The president can make a bad de-classification decision, but it is his decision to make. (In this case, it happens to have been a good decision, made to balance the misinformation put into the public domain by Joseph Wilson and others trying to mislead the public about Iraq’s nuclear intentions.)

The word "leak" as in leaking of classified information really belongs to the MSM press and those outside of the Executive branch authority since it is they who do not have the authority to leak classified information in the first place. And they are the ones who ought to be either shot or jailed. Scooter Libby never had any authorization to “leak” information from the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate.

Administrations leak — or, better, disclose — sensitive information in response to political conditions. All presidents do it, and there is nothing wrong with this. In fact, it is hilarious to hear the media, which constantly carps about government secrecy, now complaining about government disclosures.

I agree. If ya'll want to be a part of the stuck on stupid crowd, be my guest.

UPDATE: Again, once more for further clarification for those who have not been following the news for the past 2 1/2 years on the Libby case is that the so-called leak authorized by President Bush had nothing to do with Valeria Plame but in fact the, gasp!, "leak" actually covered Iraq war intelligence that was mostly already in the public domain. Even the perpetual "Stuck on Stupid" CNN's Jim Clancy tried to pass on this breaking live news "discovery" to the public that the leak was about Valeria Plame's identity. Not so.

Please! The President of the United States did not "leak" information to Cheney or Libby regarding the identity of Valeria Plame. And as a further hint, I support that a U.S. President has the power and authority to declassify any classified information just by talking about it to the public. This includes president Clinton as well if you hadn't noticed.