Top Cheney Aide Among Sources in CIA Story

[dogday]

By PETE YOST
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 17, 2005; 11:55 AM

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.

Vice President Dick Cheney, leaves the George Washington University Hospital, after a physical check up, Saturday, July 16, 2005, in Washington. 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.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071700400.html

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Interesting

So who was Libby's source? Could Libby have that type of access?

[H2O Man]

2. Beauty.

We are heading in the direction that offers us the greatest prospect of justice.

[earthboundmisfit]

3. Self-delete

put with the wrong one (should drink coffee first!)

[Liberty Belle]

4. The plot thickens! Nominating.

:kick:

Remember all those meetings Cheney had with the CIA?
It's not too tough to imagine how Libby got this information.