State Media really piss me off on this topic, they Never Ever mention the true culprit!
Posted on 11/02/2009 3:09:29 PM PST by tobyhill
Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.
On 72 occasions, according to the 28-page FBI summary, Cheney equivocated to the FBI during his lengthy May 2004 interview, saying he could not be certain in his answers to questions about matters large and small in the Plame controversy.
The Cheney interview reflects a team of prosecutors and FBI agents trying to find out whether the leaks of Plame's CIA identity were orchestrated at the highest level of the White House and carried out by, among others, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff.
Among the most basic questions for Cheney in the Plame probe: How did Libby find out that the wife of Bush administration war critic Joseph Wilson worked at the CIA?
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Gee, Hillary did the same thing and nobody batted an eye.
Smart move... Didn’t want to get tripped up stating something he wasn’t 100% sure about and end up in a cell next to Scooter.
Is 6-2” tall? Not in the NBA.
Is 79 a lot? We need context-How did clinton do?
I thought it was Novak that outted her ....
72? 72! What a piker. Why that would not even show up on the stat sheet for a Clinton. One of Hillary’s interviews I think set the world record for equivocal answers can’t remember which one since there were so many during those times.
She also has FBI file copies. Does anyone care.
The right wing balls better start twisting some arms
and quit this pansy wrist slapping. Tit for tat.
How did Libby find out that the wife of Bush administration war critic Joseph Wilson worked at the CIA?
They’re kidding, right?
MSNBC:
As it turned out, Novak wasn’t the only person Armitage talked to about Plame. Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward has also said he was told of Plame’s identity in June 2003. Woodward did not respond to requests for comment for this article, but, as late as last week, he referred reporters to his comments in November 2005 that he learned of her identity in a “casual and offhand” conversation with an administration official he declined to identify. According to three government officials, a lawyer familiar with the case and an Armitage confidant, all of whom would not be named discussing these details, Armitage told Woodward about Plame three weeks before talking to Novak. Armitage has consistently refused to discuss the case; through an assistant last week he declined to comment for this story. Novak would say only: “I don’t discuss my sources until they reveal themselves.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14533384/site/newsweek/print/1/displaymode/1098
I believe it was Dick Armey. Novack knew but kept it a secret.
Don’t quote me on that.
Heck, I’d miss at least 72 questions on what I did just yesterday!
OOps, I should have kept my mouth shut
Armitage not Armey. Duh! Sorry
I knew it was a leak of some sort - but she was just a desk jockey, not an agent in the field. So what was the big deal???
Yes, and that cloud was Patrick Fitzgerald.
And judging by the fact that he railroaded an innocent, maybe Cheney was right to stone-wall him.
Armitage outed her. Novak confirmed her employment with CIA headquarters.
If CIA outs you to some reporter calling on the telephone, then believe me, you are not covert.
Fitzgerald ordered Armitage, Colin Powell, and Novak to remain silent while he investigated, what?, for a year and a half at the end of which he convicted a guy who had nothing to do with it.
Armitage confessed his role to Fitz on the very first day of the investigation. The very first day. Fitz deserves at the least to be disbarred and better yet to do time in the cell he had planned for Libby.
The hilarious thing about the whole exercise is that it is pointless.
Dick Cheney, the American hero, has no need to prove anything to Yost and his ilk. :)
So fire away, Don Quixotes! You illustrate yourselves to be deluded numbskulls!!
Because it was a Republican. Democrats get away with worse.
Armitage not Armey.
State Media really piss me off on this topic, they Never Ever mention the true culprit!
Somehow, I don’t think this was such an important thing to the administration that the details would be memorable.
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