a) Authorized the leaking of classified National Security Documents.
b) Actively participated, and often spearheaded, the effort to discredit Joe Wilson, and authorized leaking classified information that led to the outing of Valerie Plame.

First the blatant lie, on Sept. 14th 2003 in Meet the Press:

"I don't know Joe Wilson," Cheney said, in response to Russert, who quoted Wilson as saying there was no truth to the Niger uranium claims. "I've never met Joe Wilson. And Joe Wilson - I don't who sent Joe Wilson. He never submitted a report that I ever saw when he came back ... I don't know Mr. Wilson. I probably shouldn't judge him. I have no idea who hired him."

Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq, according to attorneys familiar with the matter, and to court records.

"It was a shameful act for someone to disclose this important program in a time of war. The fact that we're discussing this program is helping the enemy,"

I was tempted to list all the shameful acts that this administration has deliberately employed to further its agenda. But it would be redundant for the Kossacks.

Surely you remember all the shenanigans that Delay and his gang orchestrated in Texas to redraw the state's congressional districts to blatantly favor the Republicans. A little (and comical) unintended consequence of such action was that it meant, "watering down the GOP vote in any one district, including his own."

LA Times sheds some light on tolerance for any VIOLATIONS by those holding security clearance.  

Transcript from last evening's Hardball episode:

MATTHEWS:  Let me go to the question--and somebody criticized me for saying it.  And maybe you will right now, Bob, but there are occasions where this president has shown the glitter of nobility.

Some of you will be invited to participate in talk-shows to debate the events leading upto the indictments, the indictment process, the indictment itself, and its implications for this administration.

In a brief telephone interview yesterday, Ms. Miller said she discovered the June 2003 notes in her office after being prompted to seek out answers to another question Mr. Fitzgerald had asked her. "There was an open question about something, and I said I would go back and look and see if there was anything in my notes that would address that question," she said yesterday.

WRONG!. She was caught lying, again!

Oct. 19, 2005 - The lengthy account by New York Times reporter Judy Miller about her grand jury testimony in the CIA  leak case inadvertently provides a revealing window into how the Bush administration manipulated  journalists about intelligence on Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.

eriposte @ Left Coaster has stepped up to the challenge and has compiled the most comprehensive set of information I have seen on Harriet Miers. I would highly recommend interested Kossacks to read that post.

Maggie Thatcher is apparently involved in this intricate web of political favors leading to economic gain.

Prince of Darkness Bob Novak reports that Bush Loyalists and Elites are beginning to turn on the President for his abysmal record on Iraq, Stem Cell, Economy, Katrina....(the list goes on). This come from a conference organized by New York investment firm Forstmann Little & Co in Aspen. Apparently there was prolific Bush Bashing, and as Novak puts it "The connecting link was hostility to Bush."

Duh! What took these dudes so long?

The President's Increasing Isolation: A related factor, aides and outside allies concede, is what many of them see as the President's increasing isolation. Bush's bubble has grown more hermetic in the second term, they say, with fewer people willing or able to bring him bad news--or tell him when he's wrong. A youngish aide who is a Bush favorite described the perils of correcting the boss. "The first time I told him he was wrong, he started yelling at me," the aide recalled about a session during the first term. "Then I showed him where he was wrong, and he said, `All right. I understand. Good job.' He patted me on the shoulder. I went and had dry heaves in the bathroom."

The Bush Era is over. The sooner politicians in both parties realize that, the better for them -- and the country.

Anything else? Did he have any role to play in the re-election of Geoorge Bush? Seems like there is a deeper connection between Bush and Brown.