Cheney's executive order.

* glenn: "To allow the Administration a free pass on this (spying) lawlessness is to further install and solidify that ideology of lawlessness. How can any Democrat possibly think it’s in the interests of their party or this country to acquiesce to that?"
read the rest, as usual.

* emptywheel: "I knew, when I watch Scottie's Monday press conference, that Katharine Armstrong did not really witness the shooting she claimed to have seen. How did I know? Because Scottie said, no fewer than six times, that Katharine Armstrong was an eyewitness, or that she saw what happened. When this crowd repeats something that many times, you can bet they're lying."
(read the rest)

* scorpion10:

"Here it is, folks, tacked on to the tail end of the Brit Hume Softball Propaganda show.

Libby says he was under orders. This indemnifies him from prosecution -- a la Oliver North.

The higher-ups told him to leak this classified info.

The only person who is allowed to declassify classified information is the President.

So the revelation last week of Libby's admission (from the Fitzgerald Plame Leak investigation) that he had leaked information from classified National Intelligence Estimate briefs to the press at the behest of his higher-ups looked like he was fingering Cheney, as unlikely as it seemed.

Now Cheney tells Brit Hume, in the softest softball interview I've heard of -- I mean, it seems like they're both reading the same script -- that "there is an executive order" that allows the Vice President to declassify information.

This is news, folks.

And it sure looks like Hume knew to ask that question, doesn't it?

Watch this:

Hume: "Let me ask you another question. Is it your view that a Vice President has the authority to declassify information?"

Cheney: "There is an executive order to that effect."

Out of the blue.

Why would he ask this unless he was prepped to?"

actually, the odd thing about this question was that when hume asked it, he kinda looked at the floor, mumbling the way he does, till he rattled off the question, and then finally looked back at the veep to get the answer...