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Cheney's Handwritten Notes Implicate Bush in Plame Affair
By Jason Leopold and Marc Ash
t r u t h o u t | Report
"Can you make out what's crossed out, Mr. Addington?" Wells asked, according to a copy of the transcript of Tuesday's court proceedings.
"It says 'the guy' and then it says, 'this Pres.' and then that is scratched through," Addington said.
"OK," Wells said. "Let's start again. 'Not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the guy ...' and then what's scratched through?" Wells asked Addington again, attempting to establish that Cheney had originally written that President Bush personally asked Libby to beat back Wilson's criticisms.
"T-h-i-s space P-r-e-s," Addington said, spelling out the words. "And then it's got a scratch-through."
"So it looks like 'this Pres.?'" Wells asked again.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013107Z.shtmlA Now that it's been expanded I can read it. Pres is scratched through. I read that as two words This Pres.
http://1fp.us/search/addington/“Not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the guy (‘this pres’—apparently crossed out by VP Cheney) that was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder because of the incompetence of others.”
http://www.roryoconnor.org/blog/?p=218Note GX 532
Note GX 532--Addington reviewed it (Note from Cheney saying shouldn't sacrifice "staffer"--May have communicated with O'Donnelll aboout note--indicated he thought it was impt.
Top half seems to be in Libby's handwriting.Bottom in Cheney's--Cheney says "has to go out today--not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the guy (this pres --scratched out)
who was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder because of the incompetence of others."
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/