You still don't understand a very simple law. There is a procedure to properly declassify documents and it WAS NOT FOLLOWED. Another instance of this president invoking "Executive privilege" to go around THE LAW. Why did he vow to find and punish the leaker if he already knew that he had declassified the information under "EP"? Because he hadn't.
What other leak thing? We're talking about the Plame investigation and after reading libby's testimony again, it really doesn't finger Rove -- it fingers Cheney. Has Fitzgerald told Cheney that he won't be indicted, yet?
LINK -- Libby Says Bush Authorized Leaks
"Lewis "Scooter" Libby testified to a federal grand jury that he had received "approval from the President through the Vice President" to divulge portions of a National Intelligence Estimate regarding Saddam Hussein's purported efforts to develop nuclear weapons, according to the court papers. Libby was said to have testified that such presidential authorization to disclose classified information was "unique in his recollection," the court papers further said.
Libby also testified that an administration lawyer told him that Bush, by authorizing the disclosure of classified information, had in effect declassified the information. Legal experts disagree on whether the president has the authority to declassify information on his own.
Although not reflected in the court papers, two senior government officials said in interviews with National Journal in recent days that Libby has also asserted that Cheney authorized him to leak classified information to a number of journalists during the run-up to war with Iraq. In some instances, the information leaked was directly discussed with the Vice President, while in other instances Libby believed he had broad authority to release information that would make the case to go to war.
In yet another instance, Libby had claimed that President Bush authorized Libby to speak to and provide classified information to Washington Post assistant managing editor Bob Woodward for "Plan of Attack," a book written by Woodward about the run-up to the Iraqi war."
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