Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff has testified that President Bush authorized him to disclose the contents of a highly classified intelligence assessment to the media to defend the Bush administration's decision to go to war with Iraq, according to papers filed in federal court on Wednesday by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case.

Congratulations, Murray. If print is dying, you are one of its last, heroic warriors.

From Patrick Fitzgerald's DOJ response (pdf!) to Libby's latest court motion:

Nor would such documents of the CIA, NSC and the State Department place in context the importance of the conversations in which defendant participated. Defendant’s participation in a critical conversation with Judith Miller on July 8 (discussed further below) occurred only after the Vice President advised defendant that the President specifically had authorized defendant to disclose certain information in the NIE. Defendant testified that the circumstances of his conversation with reporter Miller - getting approval from the President through the Vice President to discuss material that would be classified but for that approval - were unique in his recollection. Defendant further testified that on July 12, 2003, he was specifically directed by the Vice President to speak to the press in place of Cathie Martin (then the communications person for the Vice President) regarding the NIE and Wilson.

Meanwhile, Cynthia McKinney apologizes. CNN hauls out warm and fuzzy Rudy Giuliani and for some strange reason, George Bush heard this amazing statement from citizen Harry Taylor in North Carolina:

"I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration and I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of yourself inside yourself..."

Oh look, John Kerry is coming up in the situation room...do I smell blood?

Not much of a surprise. Poor Scott looked on the verge of tears. Oh well, it's probably the best thing that ever happened to him. Get while the gettin's good, baby.

Yeah, yeah. I've haven't blogged in a while. I could blame that on a busy work schedule or on the fact that I've had to format my hard drive TWICE this month. The fact is, I'm just a lazy damned Blogslut and I haven't posted because I haven't posted.

Fear not, Blogslut fans. I ain't dead. Just sleeping.

Listen to the whole album. CLICK HERE.

Neil Young and Henry Rollins have inspired me.

I've recorded an audio I-Ching reading for Karl Rove. Karl is going through ch-ch-changes. The MP3 is 4 megs. Give a listen:

Here's to you, Mr. Colbert. You Nailed em!

UPDATE: E&P has a review. And it's true, Little George and Missy Laura were not pleased. :)

UPDATE UPDATE: Crooks and Liars has the video

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: The Crooksandliars link is the second half of Colbert's speech. If you wanna get the whole thing, there's this and this. There's also a bit torrent here.