And now we have a bipartisan call for an investigation on Cheney. Isn't George Allen one of the GOP favorites?:

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Senators: Cheney Should Be Probed in Leak Sun Feb 12, 1:19 PM ET Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald should investigate Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the CIA leak probe if they authorized an aide to give secret information to reporters, Democratic and Republican senators said Sunday. Sen. Jack Reed (news, bio, voting record), D-R.I., called the leak of intelligence information "inappropriate" if it is true that unnamed "superiors" instructed Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to divulge the material on Iraq. Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record), R-Va., said a full investigation is necessary. "I don't think anybody should be releasing classified information, period, whether in the Congress, executive branch or some underling in some bureaucracy," said Allen, who appeared with Reed on "Fox News Sunday." According to court documents disclosed last week, Libby told a federal grand jury that he disclosed in July 2003 the contents of a classified National Intelligence Estimate as part of the Bush administration's defense of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq. Fitzgerald said in the documents it was his understanding that "Mr. Libby testified that he was authorized to disclose information about the NIE to the press by his superiors." The White House has refused to comment on the case. "I think this calls into question in terms of Fitzgerald's investigation of the conduct of the vice president and others," Reed said. "I think he has to look closely at their behavior." Allen expressed confidence in Fitzgerald, whom he called "a very articulate, professional prosecutor." "And I think the facts will lead wherever they lead, and I think he will prosecute as appropriate," Allen said. Libby, 55, was indicted on charges that he lied to FBI agents and the grand jury about how he learned CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and when he told reporters. He is not charged with leaking classified information. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212..._go_co/cia_leak

We can't blame Cheney for accidentally shooting someone. I'd be distracted as hell too.

Or maybe he's just taking his aggressions out? Regardless and in all seriousness, I'm glad the guy is okay.

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I've grown used to it by now, but does it amaze anyone else how every time this administration gets accused of doing something a significant percentage to majority of the population thinks is illegal, they always claim it's in their executive power. Seriously, do they have any rules?

Anyhow, Cheney claims it's his executive privilege to declassify info. This has been said before in here, but it's the first I've heard it from the parties involved.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that an executive order gives him the authority to declassify secret documents, but he would not say whether he authorized an indicted former aide to release classified information. Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, told a grand jury he was "authorized by his superiors" to disclose classified information from an intelligence estimate on Iraq to reporters, the special prosecutor investigating the 2003 leak of a CIA agent's identity told Libby's attorneys. The prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, did not identify who those "superiors" are. In an interview Wednesday with Fox News, Cheney said the case was "nothing I can talk about." But he said he had the authority to declassify material under an executive order that "focuses first and foremost on the president, but also includes the vice president." He would not disclose whether he had exercised that authority, however. Libby was indicted in October on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements to investigators probing the July 2003 exposure of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Plame's husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had just emerged as a critic of the pre-war intelligence underpinning the invasion of Iraq when her identity was disclosed. According to Fitzgerald, Libby met on July 8, 2003, with New York Times reporter Judith Miller to give her information regarding the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. The document included much of the information used to justify the invasion of Iraq earlier that year. But a legal source involved in the case tells CNN that Libby has never suggested and did not testify that anyone in the administration -- including Cheney -- authorized outing Plame. Cheney declined to discuss the investigation but said he had "cooperated fully" with the special prosecutor. And he suggested he may have to testify in Libby's trial, now tentatively set for January 2007. "Scooter is entitled to the presumption of innocence," the vice president said. "He's a great guy. I've worked with him for a long time, have enormous regard for him. I may well be called as a witness at some point in the case and it's, therefore, inappropriate for me to comment on any facet of the case." Cheney's remarks came during an interview in which he accepted responsibility for the weekend shooting of a companion during a south Texas quail hunt. (Full story) The wounded man, 78-year-old Harry Whittington, remained in intensive care in a Corpus Christi hospital on Wednesday. The incident's belated disclosure left the White House fending off questions for three days and fueled renewed criticism of the vice president, with Democrats calling it symbolic of an administration obsessed with secrecy

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don't know how many in this thread caught it, but during dick's mea culpa on fox news he cleverly set up scooter to take the full fall for the leak by saying he declassified certain information that was made available to scooter and others.

he made this comment while trying to convey how receptive he is to governmental transparency -- a laughable assertion -- but the comment reveals that if anyone is guilty of anything, it's scooter for passing along sensitive, but not secret, material to reporters. good ol' dick was merely a modern-day tom paine, looking to open things up for us...

cheney said that bush gave him the same authority to declassify material that the president himself holds; if true, this raises a number of new questions...

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