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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The "claim" is that Libby perjured himself. I confess I don't understand how this declassification stuff relates to the claim.
The "story" is that Bush, while on the one hand complaining about leaks, is on the other hand declassifying national-security information in order to feed it to sympathetic journalists. It both exposes the way his admininistration is abusing the classification of sensitive information, and (again) reflects the sort of deception that got us into the war.
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I think that Libby and his attorneys were trying to get to classified information for his defense, and I think this new information about the authorization to leak to the press came out in the government's brief arguing that Libby doesn't need the classified information in order to adequately defend himself on the perjury claims.
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