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Originally posted by ltl/fb
ETA here is a link to the relevant portion of the filing: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0406061libby6.html because I can't figure out how to cut and paste and the paragraph after the link is interesting as to the questions of (a) whether this method of declassification works and (b) whether disclosing to Miller and only Miller was really "public."
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This issue was touched on back in Feburary, when Cheney was interviewed by Brit Hume after Cheney shot a man in the face. Apparently there was an allusion to what came out today in earlier briefs, but it referred to Libby's "superiors," but not by name. The question was whether or not
Cheney could declassify information.
There's an NPR interview from around that time
regarding an executive orders to classify or declassify. The attorney they interviewed suggests that declassification can only happen by the person who originally classified the information, the successor in the office of the person who originally classified the information or the supervisor of the person who classified.
