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The whole Valerie Plame deal is just the latest example of Bush Co’s modus operandi - they play up the intelligence that helps them justify their predefined plans and goals and they suppress the information that refutes their “truth”. While this may be business as usual in politics, it is no way to run a country.

Bush did not really “declassify” the NIE. Declassification of information follows a defined process which was not followed in this case. The president’s explanation of this fiasco sounded allot like Nixon’s “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal” line.

While what The President did is probably not technically illegal, think back about all those months of W talking about the leak like he didn’t know anything about it even though he was responsible for it. Doesn’t it piss you off that he was up there pretending he wanted to find the leakers – just like O.J. wants to find the real killers…

Joe Wilson pissed off Bush/Cheney by claiming the administration’s pre war intelligence (that they also cherry picked) was bad. They wanted to get back at him so they cherry picked certain classified information and gave it to Scooter so he could out Wilson’s wife and in the process sabotage an entire CIA front company that cost millions of dollars and many years to establish.

The bottom line is that they declassified intelligence and then leaked it to the press to discredit a political adversary, period.