A Failed Cover-Up What the Libby Trial Is Revealing

WP ^ | February 2, 2007 | David Ignatius

[sgtbono2002]

Yes you do. They are making it up as they go along.

[Loyal Buckeye]

But despite CIA warnings, Bush referred to uranium purchases from Africa in his January 2003 State of the Union address, attributing it to British sources.

Isn't this the infamous 16 words (or was it 18?) that soon after the State of the Union address that GWB retracted because he did not have independent verification. The Brits stood by their conclusions and still do.

The Post is being more than a little disingenuous.

[listenhillary]

More like a failed plot to manufacture a scandal by the Wilson's, CIA, the media.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Why was the White House so nervous in the summer of 2003 about the CIA's reporting on alleged Iraqi attempts to buy uranium from Niger to build a nuclear bomb? That's the big question that runs through the many little details that have emerged in the perjury trial of Vice President Cheney's former top aide, Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

No, the big question is, why are Fitzfong's star witnesses not remembering important details they at one time knew.

[montag813]

There is only one man to blame here: Alberto Gonzales. He had a duty to dismiss Fitzgerald the moment Richard Armitage revealed that he was the beginning and the end of this silly matter. There is no "crime" here. Gonzales proves almost daily how incompetant and unworthy of his position he is.

[bmwcyle]

AMEN

[bvw]

From the land of the nudniks in the valley of the spiteful there was a village of the black-hearted. That's where these yellow-green fogs of a vile imagination and slanderous motive come from.

[woofie]

bump

[bragginright]

Now, I think you know what the MSM would have done if Gonzales had stopped the Fitz hunt.

It wouldn't have ended that easily. You'd have seen the claim of cover-up run up the MSM/DNC flagpole and demands for a Watergate style Senate hearing issued the next day.

I think Gonzales and the WH thought that it couldn't get this far. They might have thought it would die on Fitz's desk and they would be cleanly exonerated. And once it got to an indictment, it was too late. But Gonzales' hands were tied on this I'm afraid.