WP: Filings in CIA Leak Case Paint Cheney as Determined to Counter Critic

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052601757.html

Filings in CIA Leak Case Paint Cheney as Determined to Counter Critic

By R. Jeffrey Smith and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, May 27, 2006; Page A06

A string of recent court filings in the CIA leak case provide new details of Vice President Cheney's role at the center of an administration effort to rebut an outspoken critic of the White House's rationale for the Iraq war in the summer of 2003. They include his repeated discussions of the issue with his top aide and his part in a counteroffensive that resulted in the unmasking of a CIA officer.

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But Fitzgerald went out of his way to say in an April filing that Bush played no role in the leak of Plame's name. He did not similarly exonerate Cheney.

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Cheney was upset, according to Libby's account in newly disclosed grand jury testimony, by language in the column that Cheney saw as a direct attack on his personal credibility.

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Eight days later, columnist Robert D. Novak wrote that two senior administration officials told him that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, a CIA officer, had put him up to an investigation of Iraq's nuclear-related activities.

[Rose Siding]

1. He was determined to smear him, not "rebut" him

No matter how hard the Post tries, there were no questions about substance written in the margins of Wilson's op-ed. I doubt Cheney ever attempted one argument about the facts of his findings. The mission was Destroy the Critic.

[ovidsen]

2. No surprise here. Kicked. n/t

[jazzjunkysue]

3. K&R, Baby!!!!

Can anyone post more of the article? My pop up blocker prevents loading.

[Nothing Without Hope]

4. Copyright rules at DU - can only post 4 paragraphs. However,

a couple of different paragraphs were chosen from this article in the General Discussion post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1295920