Report: Cheney Admits To CIA And FBI That He Helped Leak Plame Name
Investigative reporter Murray Waas has an exclusive: his reporting indicates that Vice President Dick Cheny has in effect admitted to the CIA and to the FBI that he was instrumental in revealing the identity of a CIA agent but not, the Veep insisted, on purpose.
Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a still-highly confidential FBI report, admitted to federal investigators that he rewrote talking points for the press in July 2003 that made it much more likely that the role of then-covert CIA-officer Valerie Plame in sending her husband on a CIA-sponsored mission to Africa would come to light.
Cheney conceded during his interview with federal investigators that in drawing attention to Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s Africa trip reporters might also unmask her role as CIA officer.
Cheney denied to the investigators, however, that he had done anything on purpose that would lead to the outing of Plame as a covert CIA operative. But the investigators came away from their interview with Cheney believing that he had not given them a plausible explanation as to how he could focus attention on Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s trip without her CIA status also possibly publicly exposed. At the time, Plame was a covert CIA officer involved in preventing Iran from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, and Cheney’s office played a central role in exposing her and nullifying much of her work.
Cheney has his defenders, but it’s pretty clear that he will join George W. Bush as being part of what historians will not consider one of the United States’ most illustrious Presidential-Vice Presidential teams. Place your bets now in Vegas that by 2015 they will be considered among the worst two people to have held their offices — not because historians will be ideological hacks, but because of their job performances and concept of the law and good old-fashioned personal ethics.
He has already greatly impressed the American people: a recent poll found that 23 percent feel Cheney is the worst U.S. Vice President in history, with 41 percent feeling Cheney is a poor vice president, and only 34 percent rating him a good number two. Cheney had to work hard to get such notable numbers…
6 Responses to “Report: Cheney Admits To CIA And FBI That He Helped Leak Plame Name”
His chief of staff was found guilty of perjury. I never understood why Cheney was never put under oath during his testimony even though Fitzgerald knew Scooter was covering up for him, and told us so. I think he is still telling partial truths– and that there was a definite conspiracy to out Ms Plame that originated in the VP's office.
The good news is that he will never be able to hurt us or the rest of the world anymore.
What really stinks about this is that if that is the case, Cheney could have come out and said so a long time ago. He let his chief-of-staff go on trial and take a perjury and obstruction rap, because Cheney would not come forward. He let Judith Miller rot in jail because she didn't want to name her source. He ruined an innocent woman's career, and the covert operation that she ran was destroyed as well ( she worked on discovering nuclear proliferation in Iran!)By remaining silent he allowed the taxpayers to foot the bill for an investigation that lasted years and cost us millions.
This is the hero who was out to protect our national security???? No, Cheney was protecting his own sorry hide, and is only now coming out and talking about the Plame scandal because he's afraid that historians will nail him. If he gives his “version” to the press, at least there will be some controversy.
Cheney was determined that the US was going to invade Iraq- even before 9/11- afterwards it was his mission. He and Scooter camped out at the CIA and demanded to see the intel, drilling analysts and returning their reports if they didn't come to the desired conclusion. There was no way he was going to let Joe Wilson get away with saying in the NYT's that the evidence that Iraq was getting yellowcake from Niger was a forgery.
Biden has had his share of gaffes, (remember when he said Obama was the first articulate, clean black candidate for president, LOL?) but he was dead-on when he said that Cheney was the most dangerous VP in American history.
I'll take this with a grain of salt when it's not from a source that's ridiculously biased against the Bush administration.
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Biased or not, if you connect all the dots, Cheney's office DID ruin both Plame's career and her mission uncovering information about middle east nuclear proliferation. If his legacy is predicated on his dedication to our national security, this incident reveals his willingness to put his own agenda ahead of our national safety.
Speaking of the FBI:
The FBI does not like George W. Bush—Bush committed too many crimes.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.