What Did Libby Really Say?

I've read what the WaPo and WaTimes have written on this topic and I'm wondering why WaPo has left out a relevant bit of information. But then, after a little review, most of the MSM has left out a little piece of information.

Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff testified that his bosses instructed him to leak information to reporters from a high-level intelligence report that suggested Iraq was trying to obtain weapons of mass destruction, according to court records in the CIA leak case.

Cheney was one of the "superiors" I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby said had authorized him to make the disclosures, according to sources familiar with the investigation into Libby's discussions with reporters about CIA operative Valerie Plame.

But it is unclear whether Cheney instructed his former top aide to release classified information, because parts of the National Intelligence Estimate were previously declassified.

The disclosure in a legal document written by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald demonstrates one way in which Cheney was involved in responding to public allegations by Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, that the administration had exaggerated questionable intelligence to justify war with Iraq.

Now the bit that is missing.

William Jeffress, Mr. Libby's attorney, said, "There is no truth at all" to suggestions that Mr. Libby would try to shift blame to his superiors as a defense against the charges.

Now seeing that this is Washington and Lawyers are involved, makes you wonder what the truth is.

Of course, being the political master that he is, Tedd-the-Hutt came out quickly to start throwing stones.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, said Mr. Cheney should take responsibility if he authorized Mr. Libby to share classified information with reporters.

"These charges, if true, represent a new low in the already sordid case of partisan interests being placed above national security," Mr. Kennedy said. "The vice president's vindictiveness in defending the misguided war in Iraq is obvious. If he used classified information to defend it, he should be prepared to take full responsibility."

Limited and questionable information means Tedd has to call for the firing squad. Why did this even require a comment from the Bloated Bostonian? Yeah I know, it's politics.