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Bush Interviewed About CIA Leak
President Not Under Oath in Discussing Release of Covert Officer's Name
By Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 25, 2004; Page A02

President Bush was interviewed for more than an hour yesterday by a special prosecutor investigating whether administration officials illegally disclosed the name of a covert CIA officer last summer.

Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald and several assistants questioned the president for about 70 minutes in the Oval Office yesterday morning. A White House spokesman declined to comment on the substance of the interview but said Bush, who was accompanied by a private lawyer, was not placed under oath.

Fitzgerald's session with Bush comes amid a flurry of recent interviews and subpoenas from investigators who have operated in almost complete secrecy for six months, giving little outward indication of where the probe is headed. White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales testified on June 18 before a grand jury taking testimony in the case, and it was revealed in early June that prosecutors had interviewed Vice President Cheney.

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This week, Fitzgerald took a tape-recorded deposition that will be played to the grand jury from Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler. Kessler said he agreed to be interviewed, at the urging of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff to Cheney, about two telephone conversations he had with Libby. Kessler said he told the prosecutors that in conversations last July 12 and July 18, Libby did not mention Plame or Wilson.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3668-2004Jun24.html

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1. Obstruction of justice does not require an oath.

If it can be proved that Bush lied in his interview with the Special Prosecutor, then he can be charged with obstruction - no oath needed. But does the simpleton president have the gumption to lie? Does he actually know enough of what is going on to be able to lie? Cheney, however, cannot be given that out (even if Bush can). Cheney is going to know all the facts, details, and time-lines of everything and anything that goes on in this WH. No way will I ever believe Cheney isn't "in the loop" across the board...

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2. Cheney runs the country, the oval office, PNAC, and is a war profiteer.