New Information Uncovers Bush Involvement

A chief aide to Vice President Dick Cheney admitted that the President gave him permission to “leak” secret government information to a reporter. The aide also was allowed to reveal the name of a CIA undercover agent. Both acts are against the law. 

The aide admitted the leak under oath before a Federal Grand Jury. 

Lewis Libby told the Grand Jury that President Bush allowed him to give Judith Miller the information in July 2003.  Miller is a New York Times reporter.

The leak was used to punish a former American Ambassador to Iraq for saying in public that Saddam Hussein did not have any weapons of mass destruction. The Ambassador is Joseph Wilson.

Wilson is the husband of Valerie Plame.  She is the undercover CIA agent. The information ended Plame’s undercover work and put her in danger. She quit the CIA to protect herself and other agents. 

The Bush administration went to war in Iraq by telling the world that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.  It also claimed that Iraq was behind the 9-11 attack on the New York World Trade Center.

We have since learned that Iraq had nothing to do with the attack on the Trade Center.  In addition, no one has ever found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

In other White House news:

Alberto Gonzales is the Attorney General (chief lawyer) for the Bush administration. Gonzales admitted April 6 that Bush feels he does not need a court order to secretly wiretap anyone in the United States or to read their email. 

Bush says the power of his office gives him the right to ignore the laws under the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. 

Americans learned earlier that Bush set up a huge secret wiretapping operation to listen in on thousands of Americans. 

The president said the government was only listening in on people who were making calls and emails to outside the U.S.

He said it was to protect America against terrorism.