Top Cheney Aide Among Sources in CIA Story (Yahoo News)

[Quixote1818]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050717/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_investigation_1

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide was among the sources for a Time magazine reporter's story about the identity of a CIA officer, the reporter said Sunday.

Until last week, the White House had insisted for nearly two years that vice presidential chief of staff Lewis Libby and presidential adviser Karl Rove were not involved in the leaks of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity.

The White House refused last week to repeat those assertions when it was revealed that Rove had told Time reporter Matt Cooper that the wife of Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson apparently works at the CIA and that she had authorized his trip to Africa. The CIA dispatched Wilson to check out a report that the government of Niger had sold yellowcake uranium to Iraq for nuclear weapons.

Cooper said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he spoke to Libby after first learning about Wilson's wife from Rove.

According to Cooper, Libby and Rove were among the government officials referred to in Cooper's subsequent Time story that said Wilson's wife was a CIA official and that she was involved in sending her husband on a trip to Africa.

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[stray cat]

1. As if Cheney wasn't involved in it.

The whole attack reaks of Cheneys actual involvement.

[Joey Liberal]

2. This is indeed as bad as Watergate

I can't wait for the indictments;).........

[indepat]

3. This was a (fill in blank) operation from the start: his fingerprints are

indelible.

[shelley806]

4. kick and nominated...I think I'd rather see Cheney go down than Rove! nt

[William Seger]

14. Yes, it would be nice to get that out of the way...

... before *'s impeachment.

[Eugene]

5. kick

and nominated. :kick:

[K8-EEE]

6. Scooter Boy Can Get The John Gibson Medal Of Treason Too!

Take a bow boys, what you did was heroic, they said so on Fox News. So why are they denying it?

[K8-EEE]

7. PS, RE: Grown Men Who Call Themselves "Scooter."

Shouldn't THAT be a crime all by itself? Scooter and Turd Blossom, come claim your Fox Medals Of Treason please!!

[ananda]

8. as to Cheney

I've always thought Cheney's office, and sometimes Cheney himself, was responsible for pressuring other officials into toeing the admin line. How many high ranking people have fallen on their swords for this admin? Quite a few.. and I suspect there will be more.

Sue

[Zuni]

9. This story gets better and better

Rove and Scooter both in the shit? Fuck yeah

[glitch]

10. Right hand minions to bush & cheney. I say they were all in it.

Everybody from bush to the whole whig group. This is the kind of fubar the pooling of ignorance produces so well. A smuck acting alone would talk himself out of it, but backed by a group of cheerleaders?
Especially by drunken, strung out on ambien sleep deprived yahoo cheeleaders on a junket.
You can bet they'd think it was a clever let's get'm.

Edit to add: I think cheney is too smart for this type of op, ordinarily, but his smarts were trumped by his two achilles heels: his viciousness and his greed.

[Califooyah Operative]

11. Rate It Up!

[hootinholler]

12. Libby didn't have the right stuff,

But Wurmser did. So my guess is Libby leaked, but got his info from Wurmser.

-Hoot

[Mnemosyne]

13. .

:kick: :kick:

[Jack Rabbit]

15. (He goes into his Claude Rains imitation)

I'm shocked, shocked, I say . . .

If Rove and Libby knew, I'll be every bit as shocked to find out that Bush and Cheney knew.

[gatorboy]

16. So now it's Cheney's #2 guy

as well as Bush's #2 guy.....

Let's hope they make it to #1 :)

[osaMABUSh]

17. "the whole shit house is going up in flames"

Hey, we waited nearly five long years for this. Let's enjoy the ride.

(BTW "the whole shit house is going up in flames" wis a paraphrased line from Jim Morrison in the Oliver Stone movie. Different context, but I love that line)