"Dick Cheney has the power to declassify classified info."
WHAT A CROCK!!!
This notion is in dispute,
http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_02_05_firedoglake_archive.html#113954662356372406and here
http://www.liberaloasis.com/archives/021206.htm#021606 and as the Wall Street Journal reluctantly explains:
(by way of KOS)
"The president can declassify anything," William Banks, a Syracuse University law professor and expert on national-security law, said. While the president would have to amend his own executive order governing secrets in order to declassify something on the fly, that can be accomplished very informally, even orally and in secret. "He could do it on a cocktail napkin," Mr. Banks said.
The vice president's authority to declassify is less clear. Some legal scholars believe that Mr. Cheney would share in the president's authority, as an elected official. Alternatively, the president could delegate his declassification authority to the vice president.
"The classification system is rooted for the most part not in statute but in executive order. ...In the case of the NIE, the White House was free to declassify it at a moment's notice," said Steven Aftergood, director of the project on government secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, which favors increased public access to government information.
The implication from the disclosure that Mr. Libby had authority to discuss sensitive intelligence matters with the press "is that the White House -- the vice president -- has been using his declassification authority as a way to advance the administration's political agenda," said Mr. Aftergood. "In other words, information that supports the administration's position on Iraq or whatever is selectively declassified and other information is not. That's not a criminal offense, but it's kind of sleazy."
yet Wolfie, Torie and the whole gang just prattle off..."Well he has that power," "yes, he has that power..."
NO HE G D DOES NOT, YOU APES!!!
Cheney said he has the power, but that doesn't make it true. And in my experience if they say ANYTHING it's a sure bet that they are lying.