{"id":190703,"date":"2009-11-01T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/01\/update-on-plame-cheney\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T04:18:00","slug":"update-on-plame-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/01\/update-on-plame-cheney\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Plame Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcy Wheeler is all over this, see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and her conclusion, and mine, is that Cheney told people to out Valerie Plame as a covert operative in order to hurt her husband, Joe Wilson (the non-shouting one).<\/p>\n

Now that the grand jury information is out, even mainstream sources, like CBS News, are making it clear that they know that Dick Cheney lied through his teeth to investigators<\/a>, though it would be nice if they called him a liar, as opposed to being so oblique:<\/p>\n

Vice President Dick Cheney told the FBI <\/span>he had no idea<\/span> who leaked to the news media that Valerie Plame, wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA.<\/span><\/p>\n

An FBI summary of Cheney’s interview from 2004 reflects that the vice president had deep concern about Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador in Africa who said the administration had twisted prewar intelligence on Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n

…<\/span><\/p>\n

The vice president said he probably discussed Wilson with Bush’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, but told the FBI he would not have talked to Rove about Wilson’s wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheney’s denials that he talked about Plame are among the few things in the lengthy interview with the FBI that Cheney appeared certain about. <\/span>He repeatedly said he could not recall key events<\/span>. Among them, he said he did not recall discussing Wilson’s wife with Libby before her CIA employment was publicly revealed by conservative columnist Robert Novak in mid-July 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n

Evidence at Libby’s criminal trial showed that Cheney <\/span>had told Libby about Wilson’s wife in mid-June 2003<\/span>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, there is no appetite for pursuing actions that border on treason.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we have to deal with the Washington, DC we have, not the Washington, DC you might want or wish to have at a later time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marcy Wheeler is all over this, see here, here, and here, and her conclusion, and mine, is that Cheney told people to out Valerie Plame as a covert operative in order to hurt her husband, Joe Wilson (the non-shouting one). Now that the grand jury information is out, even mainstream sources, like CBS News, are …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1102,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-intelligence","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}