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sstrickland New Member	Sun Nov 01 01:14:36 http://www.../10/31/cheney.plame/index.html Washington (CNN) -- Former vice president Dick Cheney told a special prosecutor in 2004 that he had no idea who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, according to newly released FBI documents. Cheney was questioned as part of an investigation on how journalists came to know the identity of Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was a critic of the Iraq war. In the interview, Cheney responded to many questions with "I do not recall." However, he took a few stabs at the CIA in its handling of White House allegations that Iraq was attempting to purchase uranium from Niger to manufacture nuclear weapons. Wilson was dispatched to Niger on a CIA assignment to explore the charges and later said that the Bush administration was twisting facts to support an invasion of Iraq. He implied in a newspaper article that his trip was at the behest of the vice president. Cheney's reaction to the article was that it was "amateur hour" at the CIA, according to the FBI documents, released after the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a watchdog group in Washington, sued under the Freedom of Information Act. The 28-page summary of the Cheney interview was made public more than five years after it took place. Cheney, his chief of staff, Scooter Libby, and presidential adviser Karl Rove, were named in a 2006 federal civil lawsuit by Plame and Wilson. Plame contended she was the victim of intentional and malicious exposure and that both she and Wilson suffered a violation of rights. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2007. Only Libby was tried and convicted of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI about the Plame leak. President George W. Bush later commuted his sentence. Cheney told the FBI he did not recall discussing Plame with Libby prior to her name being published in a column by Robert Novak in July 2003, and said he had no knowledge of Libby's meeting with New York Times reporter Judith Miller a week before Plame was identified. In closing arguments at Libby's trial, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald said "a cloud over the vice-president" persisted. Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, said: "Mr. Cheney's near total amnesia regarding his role in this monumental Washington scandal -- resulting in the conviction of his top aide -- shows why."
kargen Member	Sun Nov 01 01:36:22 all meaning nothing now, because somebody else has admitted to being the one who leaked the info. In fact the prosecuter knew when he started this whole investigation that somebody else had admitted to the outing but he went on a witch hunt anyway.
Hot Rod Member	Sun Nov 01 03:42:30 And ruined a good man in the process simply because he had a faulty memory. IMHO.
Atcha Member	Sun Nov 01 03:46:11 1. This didnt ruin him 2. He's universally known as an evil man 3. If you think this had to do with a faulty memory, I've got some bridges to sell you
Atcha Member	Sun Nov 01 03:46:42 4. You dont have an honest opinion.
NeverWoods Member	Sun Nov 01 04:22:56 Why does Kargen keep on lying?
Hot Rod Member	Sun Nov 01 04:27:21 He is not lying.
Hot Rod Member	Sun Nov 01 04:33:30 Robert Novak In September 2003, on CNN's Crossfire, Novak asserted: "Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this. There is no great crime here," adding that while he learned from two administration officials that Plame was a CIA employee, "[The CIA] asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operative and not in charge of undercover operators."[46] In "The CIA Leak," published on October 1, 2003, Novak describes how he had obtained the information for his July 14, 2003, column "Mission to Niger": I was curious why a high-ranking official in President Bill Clinton's National Security Council (NSC) was given this assignment. Wilson had become a vocal opponent of President Bush's policies in Iraq after contributing to Al Gore in the last election cycle and John Kerry in this one. During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counter-proliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger. When I called another official for confirmation, he said: "Oh, you know about it." The published report that somebody in the White House failed to plant this story with six reporters and finally found me as a willing pawn is simply untrue. At the CIA, the official designated to talk to me denied that Wilson's wife had inspired his selection but said she was delegated to request his help. He asked me not to use her name, saying she probably never again will be given a foreign assignment but that exposure of her name might cause "difficulties" if she travels abroad. He never suggested to me that Wilson's wife or anybody else would be endangered. If he had, I would not have used her name. I used it in the sixth paragraph of my column because it looked like the missing explanation of an otherwise incredible choice by the CIA for its mission. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair#Robert_Novak
kargen Member	Sun Nov 01 04:36:46 "Why does Kargen keep on lying?" Kargen is not lying. Educate yourself dumbass. Libby basically lied during the investigation. Had he instead told the truth he would not have been found guilty of anything at all. He nor anybody else in the admenistration did anything illegal right up until the time that Libby told the lie. The prosecuter was politically motivated to proceed with the investigation despite knowing the truth. That he was able to keep his licence to practice law is a major fuck-up. He should have been stripped long ago.
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