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Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show
NY Times ^ | 10/24/05 | DAVID JOHNSTON, RICHARD W. STEVENSON and DOUGLAS JEHL

Posted on 10/24/2005 6:28:34 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: cheney; cialeak; davidjohnston; douglasjehl; jehl; joewilson; johnston; richardstevenson; richardwstevenson; stevenson; valerieplame
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To: gov_bean_ counter

OK, Cool


81 posted on 10/24/2005 7:03:23 PM PDT by MJY1288 (Whenever a Liberal is Speaking on the Senate Floor, Al-Jazeera Breaks in and Covers it LIVE)
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
WHERE ARE THE F##KING INDICTMENTS!!!! Shit or get off the pot!

LOL! My thoughts exactly, although since I have yong kids get out and and let your sister/father/me get into the bathroom."

82 posted on 10/24/2005 7:03:26 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: nopardons

I agree with you, but that is the true context in which the VEEP would make the wilson/CIA ( Plame) connection.
He was right and duty bound to do so. Why would anyone think that it was petty revenge against Wilson? The CIA launched a covert op., using Wilson, against the President of the United States? I hope some of those CIA liberal wingnuts were fired, with many more of them to follow!!

Shortly after this , was it not the time when the CIA Director was replaced by President Bush?

I believe that this is the proper context in which any one would view this Wilson/CIA connection, through Wilsons "wife" or otherwise.


83 posted on 10/24/2005 7:03:31 PM PDT by Candor7 (Into Liberal Flatulence Goes the Hope of the West)
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To: nj26
Can anybody in this mess afford for indictments to happen ?
Doesn't discovery bring everyone & anybody into play ?
The witness list would be hotter'n a firecracker.
84 posted on 10/24/2005 7:03:32 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Zeppo
I've learned a lot from this and from Hillary. I will never ever try to recall or recount a conversation unless I can remember it word for word (which is impossible with my memory). I'll just say I don't recall and go on my merry way. There is no way a person can recall something that happened two or three years ago unless it was a significant emotional event and even then it won't be remembered exactly like it happened. I truly doubt that Plame and her status was significant to anyone other than those trying to make a mountain out of a crater.
85 posted on 10/24/2005 7:04:02 PM PDT by pepperdog
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To: Wild Irish Rogue

Was Tenent part of the cabal?


86 posted on 10/24/2005 7:04:14 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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To: oceanview
Have you forgotten about David Corn?
87 posted on 10/24/2005 7:04:31 PM PDT by MJY1288 (Whenever a Liberal is Speaking on the Senate Floor, Al-Jazeera Breaks in and Covers it LIVE)
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To: Chuck54

Try Pray for President Bush thread. Its encouraging & makes you feel like your doing more than hearing the latest scoop.


88 posted on 10/24/2005 7:04:57 PM PDT by Linda Sandoval (mom's for common sense judges)
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To: kcvl
There should have been a RICO case against the Clintons. They are as slick as any mobster in the country.

Mobsters cringe at the sound of their name, and not because they're on opposite sides of the law.

89 posted on 10/24/2005 7:04:59 PM PDT by houeto (Mr. President, close our borders now!)
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To: Chuck54

There seems to be a disconnect in the first few paragraphs. This disconnect appears to imply something that the newspaper report doesn't say. They would come out and say it if it did. Read it again. It's not hard and it's not sinister. I think this is crafty bs.


90 posted on 10/24/2005 7:05:03 PM PDT by Perdogg ("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: digger48

that dovetails with this article (and the leak behind it).

If Libby is indicted, the left will say he "lied to protect Cheney". that's where its going.


91 posted on 10/24/2005 7:05:18 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: nj26
her undercover status was disclosed in a syndicated column by Robert D. Novak

That is a lie. How much of the rest of the article is also a lie?!!!

David Corn is the first person who printed that Plame was working for CIA and his source was JOE WILSON!



Robert Novak:

The leak now under Justice Department investigation is described by former Ambassador Wilson and critics of President Bush's Iraq policy as a reprehensible effort to silence them. To protect my own integrity and credibility, I would like to stress three points. First, I did not receive a planned leak. Second, the CIA never warned me that the disclosure of Wilson's wife working at the agency would endanger her or anybody else. Third, it was not much of a secret.

During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger. When I called another official for confirmation, he said: "Oh, you know about it." The published report that somebody in the White House failed to plant this story with six reporters and finally found me as a willing pawn is simply untrue.

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At the CIA, the official designated to talk to me denied that Wilson's wife had inspired his selection but said she was delegated to request his help. He asked me not to use her name, saying she probably never again will be given a foreign assignment but that exposure of her name might cause "difficulties" if she travels abroad. He never suggested to me that Wilson's wife or anybody else would be endangered. If he had, I would not have used her name. I used it in the sixth paragraph of my column because it looked like the missing explanation of an otherwise incredible choice by the CIA for its mission.

How big a secret was it? It was well known around Washington that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Republican activist Clifford May wrote Monday, in National Review Online, that he had been told of her identity by a non-government source before my column appeared and that it was common knowledge. Her name, Valerie Plame, was no secret either, appearing in Wilson's "Who's Who in America" entry.

A big question is her duties at Langley. I regret that I referred to her in my column as an "operative," a word I have lavished on hack politicians for more than 40 years. While the CIA refuses to publicly define her status, the official contact says she is "covered" -- working under the guise of another agency. However, an unofficial source at the Agency says she has been an analyst, not in covert operations.

92 posted on 10/24/2005 7:05:36 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: digger48

Was Cheney even before the GJ at any point?


93 posted on 10/24/2005 7:06:08 PM PDT by Rokurota (.)
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To: pepperdog

"I've learned a lot from this and from Hillary. I will never ever try to recall or recount a conversation unless I can remember it word for word (which is impossible with my memory). I'll just say I don't recall and go on my merry way."

Couldn't agree more. Many FReepers assert that Hillary has never accomplished anything. I disagree. That woman is a pro at obstructing justice and getting away with it.


94 posted on 10/24/2005 7:06:31 PM PDT by nj26
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant

please don't buy it, just print it out from you computer and do your business on it...


95 posted on 10/24/2005 7:06:37 PM PDT by Battle Hymn of the Republic
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To: okie01

We have a winner! If you are ever in DC, I'll buy you a beer.


96 posted on 10/24/2005 7:06:45 PM PDT by Perdogg ("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: Dorian

At no time was Wilson acting for the United States Government. He was acting for the DNC and a liberal 5th column inside of the CIA.


97 posted on 10/24/2005 7:07:01 PM PDT by Candor7 (Into Liberal Flatulence Goes the Hope of the West)
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To: Candor7
It is because the CIA had launched a covert operation using Wilson as a plausibly deniable foil for a public campaign against President Bush's Iraq policy.

It's too "wild" to be accepted but in all honesty I wouldn't put it past the CIA. You articulated where my tin-foil hat lead me as well. CIA've been accused of crazier things, like dumping crack cocaine into the black community in the 1980's.

Clearly they've been a failure on the intelligence front. Something is extremely wrong at Langley.

98 posted on 10/24/2005 7:07:19 PM PDT by newzjunkey (CA: Stop union theft for political agendas with YES on Prop 75! Prolife? YES on Prop 73!)
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To: Shermy

Were the bogus docs classified at the time Wilson went to Niger?


99 posted on 10/24/2005 7:07:21 PM PDT by blogblogginaway (..)
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To: Michael Barnes; dufekin
Please tell me you forgot your sarcasm tag..

I'm glad you said that twice.

100 posted on 10/24/2005 7:07:24 PM PDT by houeto (Mr. President, close our borders now!)
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