Cheney Spearheaded Effort to Discredit Wilson - Truthout

[Quixote1818]

Vice President Dick Cheney and then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley led a campaign beginning in March 2003 to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson for publicly criticizing the Bush administration's intelligence on Iraq, according to current and former administration officials.

The officials work or had worked in the State Department, the CIA and the National Security Council in a senior capacity and had direct knowledge of the Vice President's campaign to discredit Wilson.

In interviews over the course of two days this week, these officials were urged to speak on the record for this story. But they resisted, saying they had already testified before a grand jury investigating the leak of Wilson's wife, covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, and added that speaking out against the administration and specifically Vice President Cheney would cause them to lose their jobs and subject their families to vitriolic attacks by the White House.

The officials said they decided to speak out now because they have become disillusioned with the Bush administration's policies regarding Iraq and the flawed intelligence that led to the war.

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00110.htm

[PDJane]

1. Well, isn't that what most suspected?

Sounds like situation normal for this administration.

[TahitiNut]

3. I've always been certain of it. Cheney runs things, and WHIG is his baby.

With as many 'dots' as have been out there, it's hardly been necessary to connect them -- they've bled together to form a VGA-resolution picture. (VGA = Very Greedy Assholes)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Cheney and Rummy.

Never been a doubt in my mind.





ETA: Aka, "The Do-Over."

[applegrove]

2. Is he going to take the bullet - for his leader Rove?

[Stephanie]

7. Rove is not his leader

Cheney and the neocons have been planning this enterprise since the 70's. Rove is just a hack. They have no use for him.

[dweller]

4. Novak Intelligence Leak: All Roads Lead To Cheney

http://www.mikehersh.com/printer_All_Roads_Lead_To_Cheney.shtml

By William Francis (PP), Oct 18, 2003

Regarding the Wilson intelligence scandal: We need to realize that everything Bush, Novak, and McClellan are SAYING is absolutely true. But everything they're telling us is a lie. We have to remember to listen carefully to the exact words.

Novak originally said that the information about Wilson's wife came from, "two senior administration officials." this is true.

Novak also says that, "Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this." this is also true.

There is one man in the world who is BOTH a senior administration official, and does not release information from the administration (from the White House).

There is one man in the world who is a senior administration official, but is not officially (constitutionally) a member of the administration.

There is one man in the world who invested his reputation and resources in the Niger yellowcake story, more than any other.

There was one man in the world who knew of Wilson's trip to Niger as well as he knew about the identity of Wilson's wife.

In preparing his July 14 article, "Mission to Niger," there was one man in the world who Robert Novak would have contacted before any other.

The man's name is Dick Cheney.

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dp

[Stephanie]

5. I have said this from Day One

Listen to me friends

This is why he bought the MD estate during Katrina - it's for his exile. He knows his exile is imminent. If he lives that long.