CHRIS MATTHEWS REACTS TO LIBBY VERDICT

[Horse with no Name]

http://hardblogger.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/03/06/80439.aspx

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Why were Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff Scooter Libby so intent on avoiding responsibility for Joseph Wilson’s 2002 trip to Africa? The trial heard sworn testimony from several witnesses that it was the Vice President’s inquiry that triggered the CIA trip.

So, in the words of prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, what was all the “hullabaloo” when Joe Wilson wrote in the New York Times that it was “the vice president’s office” that had raised the question with the CIA of a possible Saddam Hussein effort to buy uranium from Niger? Why did Cheney and Libby want everybody to think it wasn’t the vice president?” Why did Cheney’s chief of staff call and complain so fatefully when Wilson’s claims were repeated on “Hardball?”

Could it be that Cheney feared that if the country knew it was his inquiry that led to the Africa trip then he, the president’s right-hand man, could be expected to have gotten a full report on the trip’s findings.
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I asked George Tenet, the CIA director, to explain why the vice president never got a report on a CIA fact-finding trip that was triggered by his inquiry. Tennet’s reply was “Ask him!”

[tjwash]

1. ...

..."The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house."

GWBush Jan. 15, 2000



I wonder if Shrub will remember he even said that when he pardons Libby Christmas eve, 2008, last week in the White House, just like his daddy.

I suppose it's inevitable. The sad thing is, Joe Public won't even notice. They will be too busy with the next manufactured outrage to notice the exclamation point on a disastrous and incompetent administration.

[Cameron27]

2. Matthews is going after Cheney,

but he still thinks Bush is out of the loop in this thing. He was on Imus this morning talking up Bush as a "smart guy" who only needs to fire the VP.

I'm not sure where his head's at.