“I have certainly advocated declassification. I have participated in declassification decisions,” Cheney said. Asked for details, he said, “I don’t want to get into that. There’s an executive order that specifies who has classification authority, and obviously it focuses first and foremost on the president, but also includes the vice president.”

Looking at this article coupled with the info in my previous post, we now have a pretty clear idea of what Cheney and Libby are up to. There was no violation of the law on Libby’s behalf because Cheney authorized him to reveal classified information. There’s no violation of law on Cheney’s part because he has the authority to classify and declassify info as he sees fit, even if he’s only doing so as part of a political vendetta.

This is the kind of abuse of power that you’d like to think wouldn’t have stood in much of our history. It looks like it’s just SOP these days.

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