Exclusive: Cheney’s admissions to the CIA leak prosecutor and FBI

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: Murray Waas

Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a still-highly confidential FBI report, admitted to federal investigators that he rewrote talking points for the press in July 2003 that made it much more likely that the role of then-covert CIA-officer Valerie Plame in sending her husband on a CIA-sponsored mission to Africa would come to light.

Cheney conceded during his interview with federal investigators that in drawing attention to Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s Africa trip reporters might also unmask her role as CIA officer.

Cheney denied to the investigators, however, that he had done anything on purpose that would lead to the outing of Plame as a covert CIA operative. But the investigators came away from their interview with Cheney believing that he had not given them a plausible explanation as to how he could focus attention on Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s trip without her CIA status also possibly publicly exposed. At the time, Plame was a covert CIA officer involved in preventing Iran from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, and Cheney’s office played a central role in exposing her and nullifying much of her work.

Cheney revised the talking points on July 8, 2003– the very same day that his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, met with New York Times reporter Judith Miller and told Miller that Plame was a CIA officer and that Plame had also played a central role in sending her husband on his CIA sponsored trip to the African nation of Niger.

Read more: http://murraywaas.crooksandliars.com/2008/12/23/exclusive-cheneys-admissions-to-the-cia-leak-prosecutor-and-fbi/

[Sub Atomic]

1. Nancy, will you please take your fingers out of your ears now?

[leftchick]

2. never happen

not even close. :(

[ryanmuegge]

18. Nancy is Cheney. Reid is Bush. There is no difference.

[bdamomma]

3. the crimes just keep on mounting and mounting

on this SOB, and will he just walk???

[shanti]

4. well, he keeps admitting them

i can see the pardon already. that, i believe, is why they are coming out now. if they didn't come out, what could * pardon? :shrug:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. The final episodes of "The Shield"...

...the "Vic Mackey" character locked in his blanket pardon and then gave it all up. Seems like the Bush Administration might be fans of the show, or taking notes at a minimum.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

26. That's the reason the asshole is admitting them now -

There's no time to impeach now thanks to DLC Democrats refusing, and of course Bushit will pardon him and everyone else.

[Oldtimeralso]

12. Or as they say in Rock & Roll

The hits just keep on coming!:evilfrown:

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. Who has the balls to stop him?

[proud progressive]

5. nothin gonna happen. meanwhile, he and his buddies continue to enrich themselves. ain't life grand?

[aquart]

7. Before we slapped wrists for treason, what was the penalty?

[TEmperorHasNoClothes]

10. Death by Hanging

and I can't think of anything more appropriate for Cheney.

[pattmarty]

17. I'd pay most of my pension to own that video.

[Plucketeer]

8. I'm beginning to think that living under a dictator would be OK

At LEAST you'd know where you stood and what the rules were - or weren't. :grr:

[Independent_Liberal]

9. And we sit and bitch and whine...

...and don't demand impeachment/prosecution. Why? Because we think we can't do anything, so it becomes the accepted belief and meme. It's a false meme that we're going to need to force ourselves to break and an attitude we need to change.

[Baby Snooks]

21. We did demand it..

We did demand it. And Madame Speaker told us to go fuck ourselves. Which is what Barack Obama has already told us as well.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

27. DLC Democrats joined hands with Republicans to stop the rest of us

I'm wondering if Obama will do the same. He seems to be very chummy with Bushists.

[bdamomma]

32. in any other country these thugs would have been long gone.

when people have nothing to loose then they act.

[benld74]

11. TREASON!!!

[northernlights]

13. Rosenbergs were electrocuted, weren't they?

If he's charged now, * will pardon him. I want to see action after 1/20 when * is gone and justice can be done to him and to *.

[Ilsa]

15. "He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm!"

"Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!" Hanover Fiste, Heavy Metal.

The SOB is a traitor that wanted Iran to get WMD so he and W could order another damn war.

[pleah]

16. One pardon coming right up!

They better arrest these bastards before the pardoning begins. I won't hold my breath though.

[The Wizard]

19. Treason

Thy name is Bush Cartel.

[Baby Snooks]

20. When is treason not treason?

At one point George HW Bush stated that disclosure of a CIA agent's identity, covert or not, was treason. There were covert agents who worked with Valerie Plame years before and of course their lives were endangered as a result although personally I have little regard for the CIA and little feeling about any CIA agent being murdered by foreign spies given the number of foreign spies, and democratically elected government leaders, they have murdered through the years. Live by the sword, die by the sword as they say.

But you do have to ask the question when is treason not treason? When a Bush commits treason.

[No Elephants]

22. Dick Cheney is not a Bush., though. Pack him off to Gitmo!

[DRoseDARs]

23. Could it be possible they're waiting until Bush DOESN'T have pardon power?

You can't pardon someone who hasn't be prosecuted or even officially charged with anything.

I know, I know, this would require foresight and spines, but is it possible that that's why Congress has dragged its feet for so long? :shrug:

[jeff30997]

24. What a great fantasy.

It would be like Clark Kent changing into Superman.I really wish that it could happen.

[Pastiche423]

30. Blanket pardons!

The president's pardon powers are considered absolute. Blanket pardons — covering groups of unnamed individuals — historically have been rare but are not unprecedented.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/16024.html

[AlbertCat]

25. What role????

Wilson's wife had a very tangential role....like someone asked if her husband might do it and she said "yeah".....so even if the purpose of this deception by Cheney was not to out Plame, it still is deception employed to discredit reliable info. (Then they blame the "bad info"????) It's still jeopardizing National Security for political reasons.

Crap!

I still don't believe him when he says he didn't mean to out Plame. He's simply not that stupid.

[creeksneakers2]

28. Incredible

I didn't trust Fitzgerald. There was enough evidence there to prosecute for leaking Plame's identity. Fitzgerald just chose not to pursue it.

[lovuian]

29. this is proof of their guilt

and this Pardon in the future isn't going to mean anything

they sold out our own CIA agents

traitors to this country

[dailydave21]

31. agree

this really is an admission of guilt

:puke: