Cheney and the Leak

[ProSense]

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Cheney and the Leak

In case you missed the latest Murray Waas article, he writes for National Journal about Cheney's authorization of the intelligence leak. In this latest piece, Waas demonstrates how deeply involved the vice president was in the effort to discredit Ambassador Wilson during the period of the Plame leak. Although there has been considerable effort to distance the vice-president from the decision to out Plame's identity, Waas examines Cheney's machinations preceding Libby's discussions with Judith Miller and Matt Cooper suggesting a leading role.

http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000425.htm

'National Journal': Cheney Ordered Libby to Leak 2002 Report

By E&P Staff

Published: April 14, 2006 4:15 PM ET

NEW YORK Vice President Dick Cheney on July 12, 2003, directed Lewis 'Scooter" Libby, his chief of staff, to leak to reporters portions of a then-highly classified CIA report, according to Libby's grand jury testimony in the Plame case and sources who have read the classified report, the National Journal reported on its Web site Friday afternoon. Cheney hoped this would undermine the credibility of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, Murray Waas writes.

Waas has uncovered a string of "scoops" in the CIA leak case in the past several weeks.

The March 2002 intelligence report was a debriefing of Wilson by the CIA's Directorate of Operations after Wilson returned from his now-famous mission to Niger. "The debriefing report," Waas explains., "made no mention of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, then a covert CIA officer, or any role she may have played in her husband's selection by the CIA to go to Niger, according to two people who have read the report.

"The previously unreported grand jury testimony is significant because only hours after Cheney reportedly instructed Libby to disclose information from the CIA report, Libby divulged to then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller and Time magazine correspondent Matthew Cooper that Plame was a CIA officer, and that she been involved in selecting her husband for the Niger mission."

more...

http://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002344659&imw=Y

[saltpoint]

1. Waas is doing great work and so is anybody who posts this for

the rest of us to have a look it. Thank you for doing that.

Also I love your signature line. :thumbsup:

:hi:

[warrior1]

2. Hi Old Crusoe

May I use you avator?

[saltpoint]

3. Hi, warrior1. I found it on the net months ago. Can you copy it and

just use it? Go ahead if you can.

If there's something I need to do, let me know.

[warrior1]

5. Much thanks

I'll try that.

[warrior1]

6. testing

[warrior1]

7. It workie

Thanks

[saltpoint]

8. Onward & upward. Vote blue!

[ProSense]

4. Thanks. It's a great article.

:hi:

[ladjf]

9. There is a possibility that Valerie Plame was working on

the nuclear technology sales including Iran with the possibility that Halliburton was involved.
Sorry I don't have the references. I read it in the media a month or so ago. That could easily have been another reason that Cheney was so motivated to leak the info.