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FBI Report May Implicate Outgoing VP
It doesn't look like Dick Cheney is making it onto Santa's nice list this year.
In a confidential FBI report, the ever-unpopular vice president admits that he helped unmask the identity of Valerie Plame, once an undercover CIA agent whose husband ticked off the Bush administration by alleging that the White House twisted intelligence information to justify going to war in Iraq.
The revelation comes courtesy of Murray Waas, an investigative journalist, who reports that Cheney admitted to the FBI that he rewrote talking points for the press in 2003, making it "much more likely" that Plame's identity would be revealed. Cheney revised the notes on July 8, 2003 -- the same day that Scooter Libby told New York Times reporter Judith Miller of Plame's identity.
This news probably doesn't come as a shock to Bush, who promised in 2005 that he would fire anyone in his administration who was involved in illegally leaking Plame's identity. "If somebody committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration," he said.
Oops.
Waas writes, "That Cheney, by his own admission, had revised the talking points in an effort to have the reporters examine who sent Wilson on the very same day that his chief of staff was disclosing to Miller Plame's identity as a CIA officer may be the most compelling evidence to date that Cheney himself might have directed Libby to disclose Plame's identity to Miller and other reporters."
Libby was convicted last year of lying, perjury and obstructing justice while he sought to protect himself and his cronies from legal consequences in leaking the name of an undercover CIA agent. Cheney, of course, has never seen an ounce of discipline for his role. Though as Waas points out, a juror in the Libby case said he and other jurors suspected that Libby was a "fall guy" and had lied about himself to protect Cheney.
At least the vice president had the integrity to tell the FBI some of the truth. But with less than a month ticking away on the Bush-Cheney White House, it hardly holds the gravitas it could have five years ago.
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Chuck Thompson
4:26AM 4:26AM Dec 24th 2008
So.....now try Cheney for treason, find him guilty, and let him leave this world.
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rrobin6128
11:53PM 11:53PM Dec 28th 2008
Do not any of you understand the headlines, may have, and ex-cia agent? The problem with this whole thing is Plame was not a covert op at this time and she broke the rules letting her husband get involved. No one has an issue with any of this though?
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T Rogers
6:38PM 6:38PM Dec 29th 2008
Amen to that!
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Steve Seivers
1:00PM 1:00PM Dec 29th 2008
rrobin-You are completely wrong. Plame was covert. she had set up our intelligence network on WMD's in the Middle East. Her cover and the cover of many spies were blown by Cheney.
Secondly, she had nothing to do with her husband going to Africa. He was a hero from the 1st Iraqi war and had many contacts in Africa.
The talking points of the republicans were barefaced lies. By perpetrating these lies you are saying more about yourself than about the situation.
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Frank
11:34AM 11:34AM Dec 24th 2008
Did anyone not suspect this...? A pathetic administration and now we all are paying for the staggering corruptness. In virtually every corner of foreign and domestic matters...we will need at least eight years to undo the mess they have left us with.
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Mike
12:34AM 12:34AM Dec 28th 2008
BINGO Frank- in my lifetime there have been administrations that were either good at domestic issues or foreign issues, but rarely both- If an administration had both fronts covered we thrived as a nation (I can only think of 2 since the Kennedy administration)- This administration was horrible at both domestic AND foreign issues- Combine that with the corruption and voila, you get economic and foreign meltdown soup!!
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Jim
11:34AM 11:34AM Dec 24th 2008
We all know that this is the most corrupt administration on our nations history. History is starting to catch up with common knoledge.
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AMERICA FIRST
12:28PM 12:28PM Dec 26th 2008
Just wait until Obama gets out of office (if he gets in) and then get back to us about Bush\Cheney.
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Eric Darling
8:16AM 8:16AM Dec 28th 2008
The thing I can't figure out is, why hasn't anyone looked into conflict of interest charges when a sitting VP of the US collects more than $13,000 a month from Halliburton, a company that he enriched through no-bid contracts over the last 8 years by Billions of US taxpayer dollars, much of which has never been accounted for?
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mitchel eisenstein
12:58PM 12:58PM Dec 24th 2008
so cheney is admitting he outed valerie plame! we have to pillory this animal and burn him at the stake, as soon as it becomes legal of course
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John Fee
10:28PM 10:28PM Dec 29th 2008
We need a constitutional amendment to curb the Presidential pardon power. After Libby was pardoned, it was obvious that pursuing that path, criminal prosecutions of the Bush administration, would be futile. What specifically needs to be addressed is the notion of pardons for activities not yet investigated. Those pardons, if granted at all, should be left to successor adminstrations.
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Don
1:11PM 1:11PM Dec 24th 2008
Hang Him High !!
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snakebit
6:26PM 6:26PM Dec 24th 2008
Hmmmm no terrorist attacks since 9-11 6years of economic growth.Fannie may Freddie mac Democrat slush fund.no one wanting to hang Barney Franks? interesting
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FireEagle
1:31PM 1:31PM Dec 24th 2008
It is so hard for you, Matt to remember back that far you forget some of the details.
A July 14, 2003, newspaper column by Robert D.Novak disclosed the name of Valerie Plame, a CIA "operative on weapons of mass destruction."
Novak should be tried for treason for disclosing the name. Why was he never arrested?
It is because Valerie Plame was not covert!!
Victoria Toensing (who wrote the covert statue) is saying there's no way Valerie Plame could be convert. Toensing went on to say “Well, my credentials are how I know. I wrote the law. She was not covered by the (statue) law.”
If there was any question that she was covert, then the independent counsel, Fitzgerald, would have pursued on that basis, rather than go after a process crime with somebody who might have lied before the grand jury, as is the case.
If there had been anybody who had genuinely, knowingly outed Valerie Plame as a covert agent, then Fitzgerald would have had his case.
Matt, once again you are dusting the web page with some of your liberal, get Cheney propaganda, with out checking all of the facts.
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longwalker
1:52PM 1:52PM Dec 24th 2008
Matt : Richard Armitage, a senior State Department official is the one who "outed" Valerie Plame. When Novack's column came out, Armitage told Colin Powell, the Secretary of State. Powell informed Fitzgerald when Fitzgerald arrived in Washington to head the investigation.
As Valerie Plame was not an "covert agent" under the relevant statutes, there was no case to be made against either Armitage or Nowack.
However, Fitzgerald did not want to go back to Chicago empty handed. So he kept interviewing government officials until he found one who remembered things differently from other witnesses.
He got Scooter Libby's scalp - it was somewhat better than a T-shirt!
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Marty Adams
1:58PM 1:58PM Dec 24th 2008
The FBI report coupled with Waas' lowers the "cloud of suspicion" that prosecutor Fitzgerald said was hanging over cheney. No need to wonder why the vp was never put under oath to testify in Scooter's behalf, or why Scooter chose not to try to defend himself under oath.
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William
2:02PM 2:02PM Dec 24th 2008
Don't close Gitmo make it the Bush/Cheney library site and reserve two cells for "W" and Dick.
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Marty Adams
2:03PM 2:03PM Dec 24th 2008
TO: Longwalker: You are really dealing in fantasy. In addition to Libby, there were at least three OTHER people who could have leaked Plame's identity: Rove, Armitage and Fleischer. Fitzgerald determined early on that the Armitage leak was UNintentional and therefore, did not violate the law. Plame WAS covert at the time she was outed and that has been verified by Hayden at the CIA. If Libby was blameless as you imply, why did he choose not to testify under oath in his own behalf ; likewise cheney.
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Gregory Dittmer
7:15PM 7:15PM Dec 24th 2008
I don't care how much time has passed and I don't care if Bush43/Cheney only have a few weeks, a few minutes or do it after they are out of office... they should be made to pay for their arrogance in the outing of Plame. Furthermore, according to the standards WE WROTE and applied to the Nazi war criminals, Bush/Cheney are just as guilty as any of the Nazis in waging a war of agression with the intent to overthrow the leader of a sovereign nation. They are also guilty of HOW they waged the war and the false pretenses used to justify an invasion. WE, the United States, hung Nazis for these VERY SAME ACTS... it is only fitting that Bush/Cheney should be tried in the World Court and held accountable for their actions!
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John Huckleberry
10:02PM 10:02PM Dec 24th 2008
Hah, like we didn't know. Now how do we jail the man. He's admitted to his crime, he must do his time.
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