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

Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/po...rtner=homepage

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — 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.

If this is true... :eek:

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheney...e_to_1024.html

Those close to the investigation say that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been told that David Wurmser, then a Middle East adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney on loan from the office of then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Bolton, met with Cheney and his chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby in June 2003 and told Libby that Plame set up the Wilson trip. He asserted that it was a boondoggle, the sources said.

Libby then shared the information with Karl Rove, President Bush's deputy chief of staff, the sources said. Wurmser also passed on the same information about Wilson to then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, they added.

Within a week, Wurmser, on orders from "executives in the office of the vice president," was told to leak her name to a specific group of reporters in an effort to muzzle her husband, Wilson, who had become a thorn in the side of the administration, those close to the inquiry say. It is unclear who Wurmser had spoken with in the media, the sources said, but they confirmed he did speak with reporters at national media outlets about Plame.

"Libby wanted to discredit him right from the start," one source close to the investigation told RAW STORY. "He used David Wurmser to help him do that."

As you know - I am all about facts and they are way against Cheney here. I cannot wait for this pimple to pop.

Yep.

:p :laugh:

Oh, my. This is going to be good. Thanks for posting. I can't wait for the next exciting new installment. ;) :nod:

Word is that tomorrow just might be the day. Wednesday at the latest. Keep your fingers crossed.

We'll see....

oh, pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease... Really? so soon?

It's been two years, hon. :eek: The grand jury expires this week.

Oh, right. It just seems like so much has come to light recently.
Carry on.

This is going to be one tense week. I see me spending a lot of time on the ledge...and not doing homework! DAMN! :lol:

I hope this story explodes this week. I hope it goes beyond just the Plame outing... it's really about the lies and deception that led up to the Iraq war.

yea yea yea...you! ;)

I LOVE what James Carville said this morning about Sen Kay Bailey Huitchinson's comment that she hoped the indictments were not for petty technicalities for perjury, obstruction, etc. He said that was interesting because she thought Clinton's perjury in a dismissed sex suit was the crime of the 20th century or something like that. She is just another hypocritical pseudo conservative who needs to be fired.

Carville came out of hiding, eh? He must not be worried about wifey poo anymore.