On July 8, 2003, vice presidential Chief of Staff Scooter “Libby had another get-together with [reporter] Judy Miller. …Once again, [Vice President Dick] Cheney had given his chief of staff the green light to disclose information from the classified National Intelligence Estimate [NIE]. …[Cheney’s chief counsel] had reassured Libby that if [President] Bush had authorized the disclosure of the classified information, that amounted to declassification of the material. This was the first time Libby had seen secret information declassified only on the say-so of a president. …He would be feeding sensitive information to a reporter whose stories had bolstered the WMD case for war. …He told her the NIE had ‘firmly concluded that Iraq was seeking uranium.’ …But in making these assertions about the NIE, Libby was again being misleading and highly selective:…he neglected to mention the caveats, qualifiers, and dissents within the NIE that had been left out of the white paper. Libby once more brought up Wilson’s wife’s employment as a counterproliferation expert at the CIA.”
– Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Pages 260-261