La Times: Rove and Cheney chief of staff intent on discrediting Wilson

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By Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten
LATimes Staff Writers

July 18, 2005
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-leak18jul18,0,4996008.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

WASHINGTON — Top aides to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were intensely focused on discrediting former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV in the days after he wrote an op-ed article for the New York Times suggesting the administration manipulated intelligence to justify going to war in Iraq, federal investigators have been told.

Prosecutors investigating whether administration officials illegally leaked the identity of Wilson's wife, a CIA officer who had worked undercover, have been told that Bush's top political strategist, Karl Rove, and Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, were especially intent on undercutting Wilson's credibility, according to people familiar with the inquiry.

Although lower-level White House staffers typically handle most contacts with the media, Rove and Libby began personally communicating with reporters about Wilson, prosecutors were told.

>>>>The disclosures about the officials' roles illustrate White House concern about Wilson's July 6, 2003, article, which challenged the administration's assertion that Iraq had sought to purchase nuclear materials. Wilson's article appeared as Rove and other Bush aides were preparing the 2004 reelection campaign strategy, which was built largely around the president's response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.


Yeah, this story is so dead :eyes:

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1. Not only is this story not dead...

but the more facts that come out, the more the noose tightens and the higher it goes. I cant wait to see Karl and Libby doing the frog walk...and Ken Mehlman spewing about "witchhunts".

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2. What we're hopefully achieving, along with the unraveling of Bush

is the exposing of the manipulation of (intelligence?) that Bush used to sell the war.