Libby Links Cheney To Plame Leak

[Fridays Child]

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Libby Links Cheney to Plame Leak

By Jason Leopold
June 4, 2008

FBI documents obtained by a congressional committee indicate that Vice President Dick Cheney may have authorized his former deputy to leak the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson.

In a June 3 letter sent to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Rep. Henry Waxman, Democratic chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called on the Justice Department to release transcripts of interviews that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald conducted with President George W. Bush and Cheney about the leak of Plame's identity.

Waxman said the Justice Department has turned over to his committee redacted transcripts of interviews that federal investigators conducted with former White House political adviser Karl Rove and Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

According to those transcripts, Libby told federal investigators that Cheney may have told him to leak Plame's association with the CIA to reporters, Waxman said in the letter to Mukasey.

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[Lex]

1. Uh oh.

Jason Leopold. :popcorn:

[Fridays Child]

5. See my response at #4.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

2. Jason Leopold?

Don't mean to start a flame war, but. . .

[Fridays Child]

4. He remains a trustworthy source, in my view, but here's another source for you...

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jh7ElHY9QqjAH63ueSVISAEdH4kQD912S7A00

[OwnedByFerrets]

3. MAY HAVE!!!!!!

You would think that when someone is telling you to commit treason, you might remember more explicitly.:mad:

[Me.]

6. Now Won't It Be Interesting

Given the lies, obfuscations, tricks twists and turning, and the fact that nothing is ever what we think...wouldn't it be amazing, if somewhere down the road, it turns out Leopold was right?

[Fridays Child]

8. You mean about this or about Rove?

Because I believe he was right about Rove but that Rove beat the indictment by the proverbial skin of his teeth. As for this story, other sources have the Waxman stort, too, so I don't think there's any question there.

[Me.]

9. Rove

And I agree with you, I always had a sneaking suspicion he was right. I think it would be hilarious, given the fireworks here, if he was vindicated, somewhere along the way.

:rofl:

[Fridays Child]

11. Leopold's vindication would be satisfying, indeed.

[spanone]

7. send the fucking marshalls....take his sorry ass to a west virginia prison

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Why, does he have relatives there?

Somebody to, you know, keep him company in prison?