News Hour w/Jim Lerher. The Haloscan date timestamp(near live time) shows 04-07-06.
I posted the haloscan comments off an atrios comments section where my post first appeared in live time.
What can I say about that, other than 9-11 changed everything? "Bo bo admits seeing the nat'l intel estimate outing Plame, along with "several other reporters" shown it "in a group" "and seperately" by Libby himself.
Mr.M | 04.07.06 - 7:50 pm" Bo-Bo is the slang nickname for MSM regular David Brooks.
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Shields and Brooks
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks speak with Jim Lehrer about the Senate's failed immigration deal, the impact of Rep. Tom DeLay's decision to resign, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's admission that President Bush authorized him, through the vice president,
to leak prewar Iraq intelligence.
The transcript window off the archive link starts with the line ">>Leher: Okay," more than a third down the scroll window toggle off the interview window(Windows high speed format)."
No timer link on the stream archive, but the actual phrase/matching transcripts portion starts in the Windows interview window exactly at the command bar line of the link window just past the NEXT(autofast forward) button.
The key quotes from Brooks are as follows:
"They gave it to Judy Miller then eight days later they gave it to a lot of us."
It was the kind of thing Brooks withheld from disclosure until Karl Rove's orchestrated campaign began. The same day Rove appeared live on CSpan 2, several reporters went with the "Bush authorized it to me via Libby" meme.
" I think Scooter Libby himself handed the NIE to me..."
This is of course the smoking document. The statement on its own is outrageous in light of the Plame case and Bush's own talk about punishing leaks.
"I was in a whole group of [sic]reporters..."(interrupted)
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"...and gave the NIE to me...yeah the National Intelligence Estimate..."(grins, shakes head emphatically, raising right hand in irony, perhaps to humor the seriousness of his statement)
"...there were whole bunch of reporters it was declassified and so he gave it a little earlier to Judy Miller I guess..."
The fact more than one person was cavalierly given access to information of highest security is the issue in and of itself. Judith Miller's access is important because at the time Ahmed Chalabi and other members of the Iraq Survey Group were most likely in attendance, especially members of the Iraqi National Congress.
The fact of the disclosure, classified or not , is of perhaps secondary importance to this clinching fact:
"...it wasn't complete but it had things, if you were president, that you would think 'yeah you'd wanna act on this stuff..."
Bobo is the money quote, and sums up Bush. The wannabe POTUS politicized INTEL to make people we think we had to act on Iraq. IT WAS NOT COMPLETE.
This is the smoking gun. Please highlight David Brooks' comfortable disregard to the Plame situation. He laughs off the outing of family for a man George W. Bush's own father gave the highest decoration a civilian can merit.
Remember the fact they deliberately removed the qualifiers that proved the NIE shot down the evidence Bush presented. This constitutes misleading statements. The evidence was shaped, as per the Downing Street Minutes as Rep. Conyers' conference on the DSM has placed within record.
The fact of Brooks' statement on the National Intelligence Estimate portions he was shown matches the first reason linked in Conyer's executive summary. The hearing higlights excerpts of the minority report in said summary:
There is at least a prima facie case that these actions by the President, Vice-President and other members of the Bush Administration violate a number of federal laws, including (1) Committing a Fraud against the United States; (2) Making False Statements to Congress; (3) The War Powers Resolution; (4) Misuse of Government Funds; (5) federal laws and international treaties prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; (6) federal laws concerning retaliating against witnesses and other individuals; and (7) federal laws and regulations concerning leaking and other misuse of intelligence.
In total three points mentioned by Conyer's minority report and executive summary are encompassed within the spectrum of David Brooks' statement on the PBS program.