Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show

NY Times ^ | 10/24/05 | DAVID JOHNSTON, RICHARD W. STEVENSON and DOUGLAS JEHL

[nj26]

I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003, lawyers involved in the case said Monday.

Notes of the previously undisclosed conversation between Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney on June 12, 2003, appear to differ from Mr. Libby’s testimony to a federal grand jury that he initially learned about the C.I.A. officer, Valerie Wilson, from journalists, the lawyers said.

The notes, taken by Mr. Libby during the conversation, for the first time place Mr. Cheney in the middle of an effort by the White House to learn about Ms. Wilson’s husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, who was questioning the administration’s handling of intelligence about Iraq’s nuclear program to justify the war.

Lawyers said the notes show that Mr. Cheney knew that Ms. Wilson worked at the C.I.A. more than a month before her identity was made public and her undercover status was disclosed in a syndicated column by Robert D. Novak on July 14, 2003.

[Suzy Quzy]

Libby makes me sick!

[MJY1288]

Give it up pal, you simply don't get it.... I will not fall for your "I'm not a Bush Basher" defense, when your posting history proves otherwise. I refuse to grant you even that much respect, you are a STAIN on the Conservative movement at best, and a DU Troll at worst, and you're simply not worth conversing with... So get over the fact that I won't address your questions, it's nothing personal, It's just that I believe you are Troll or even worse.... A Libertarian!

[olde north church]

Maybe this is wishful thinking but is it possible the indictments will be on the CIA side of things?

[old and tired]

But should it have? It causes be to question his integrity.

I'm not sure. I don't know how I would react in the same situation. Would I continue to do work for a traitor if my work were honest and unrelated? Probably. Would I pursue a relationship with the traitor to ensure future completely legal and above board business? I just don't have the answer. It's easy to call Scooter a whore, but we all put up with personally distasteful people in business because we need to earn a living and take care of our families.

[Arizona Carolyn]

He was on Letterman Friday night. Savage played the out take where he said that he thought Rove and Libby should both be exterminated -- at which point the crowd roared with laughter (along with Letterman)...

[STARWISE]

What about Pincus?

[MJY1288]

Thanks for your words on wisdom Huck, I'll go to bed now that you have spoken. You really have a talent for entering into a gun fight with a knife

[old and tired]

The expose' on Libby said he was Marc Rich's attorney on the pardon deal.

Can you show me where it says that?

[lugsoul]

"I will not fall for your "I'm not a Bush Basher" defense, when your posting history proves otherwise."

You continue to repeat this baseless charge yet you can't even post one itty bitty Bush bash from me? Just one? Perhaps the sarcastic post above was correct about your brain power.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Is that why the whole Marc Rich pardon was swept under the carpet? Also, why would Cheney hire him????

[lugsoul]

You shouldn't pretend Sham is interested in facts.

[gusopol3]

did his head bobble maliciously?

[MJY1288]

OK, You're a Bushbot.... You win!!!!

Good night

[blogblogginaway]

Vice President Aaron Burr was indicted by two states for the murder of Alexander Hamilton. Vice President Spiro Agnew negotiated an indictment for failing to pay taxes (rather than bribery), and resigned from office.


Here is a 2000 Dept. Of Justice Memorandum which discusses the subject ............


"The OLC memorandum concluded that all federal civil officers except the President are subject to indictment and criminal prosecution while still in office; the President is uniquely immune from such process. Second, the Department addressed the question later that same year in connection with the grand jury investigation of then-Vice President Spiro Agnew. In response to a motion by the Vice President to enjoin grand jury proceedings against him, then-Solicitor General Robert Bork filed a brief arguing that, consistent with the Constitution, the Vice President could be subject to indictment and criminal prosecution. See Memorandum for the United States Concerning the Vice President's Claim of Constitutional Immunity (filed Oct. 5, 1973), In re Proceedings of the Grand Jury Impaneled December 5, 1972: Application of Spiro T. Agnew, Vice President of the United States (D. Md. 1973) (No. 73-965) ("SG Brief"). In so arguing, however, Solicitor General Bork was careful to explain that the President, unlike the Vice President, could not constitutionally be subject to such criminal process while in office.

In this memorandum, we conclude that the determinations made by the Department in 1973, both in the OLC memorandum and in the Solicitor General's brief, remain sound and that subsequent developments in the law validate both the analytical framework applied and the conclusions reached at that time."

http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/sitting_president.htm

[lugsoul]

At least you are consistently wrong.

[STARWISE]

'Quinn writes again to Clinton. With a new angle.

January 5, 2001

... On a personal note, I believe in this case with all my heart. When first approached about getting involved, I was highly skeptical. But, I studied the facts and the law carefully and became convinced of both Marc's innocence and the outrageously prejudicial and unfair treatment of him by the then-new U.S. Attorney in New York, Mr. Giuliani .."

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Anatomy of a Pardon

[lugsoul]

Facts, schmacts.

[kabar]

While working in the government, he needs to maintain his ties in the private sector.

Right, with a pardoned,shady criminal like Rich. Libby displayed no principles and respect for his current employer, the VP. Even Podesta advised Clinton not to pardon Rich.

For all Libby knew, he was going to be working for Rich again in another 4 years if Bush weren't reelected.

That says it all. Case closed.

[crushelits]

SPECULATION, SPECULATION, hypothesizing...
Leaks, this is worst that the leaks in the roofs brought on by Wilma.
I am not really worried. Why hypothesize?

[Sam Hill]

Forgot Pincus.

(Note our troll didn't remember him either.)

Tho, I could argue that Pincus is a columnist. It's just they call some of his columns news.