Cheney, Libby Blocked Papers To Senate Intelligence Panel

[sabra]

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1027nj1.htm

Cheney, Libby Blocked Papers To Senate Intelligence Panel
By Murray Waas, special to National Journal

Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, overruling advice from some White House political staffers and lawyers, decided to withhold crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when the panel was investigating the use of pre-war intelligence that erroneously concluded Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, according to Bush administration and congressional sources.

Cheney had been the foremost administration advocate for war with Iraq, and Libby played a central staff role in coordinating the sale of the war to both the public and Congress.

Among the White House materials withheld from the committee were Libby-authored passages in drafts of a speech that then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell delivered to the United Nations in February 2003 to argue the Bush administration's case for war with Iraq, according to congressional and administration sources. The withheld documents also included intelligence data that Cheney's office -- and Libby in particular -- pushed to be included in Powell's speech, the sources said.

The new information that Cheney and Libby blocked information to the Senate Intelligence Committee further underscores the central role played by the vice president's office in trying to blunt criticism that the Bush administration exaggerated intelligence data to make the case to go to war.

[babylonsister]

1. CNN just reported that Libby is to be indicted,GJ

to start another stint, and Rove isn't out of it.
True or not?

[still_one]

2. no one is out yet

the grand jury is going to be extended

[kikiek]

3. Now this is sounding serious. I hope they nail them all. Good news.

[Overseas]

4. Kick... n/t

[I_Make_Mistakes]

5. I remembered saying to my black girl friend that Colin looked really

sickly, and she said, "I see what you are saying. Look at his UN speech, he was as she would say ashy". He knew it was all a lie, and I believe he tried to get out of that speech. He knew it was the end of his career.

I think Colin, is the ex. the rest of the rats are comparing themselves to, he did what they asked and look what happened to him!

[babylonsister]

7. You didn't need a black girlfriend to come to that conclusion.

I trusted Colin and he let me down.

[KerryOn]

6. Hope Fitz has a surprise for us all tomarrow...

I heard this today and feel it may be the best Fitzmas yet. The hell with the NYT's.