Cheney told FBI he had no idea who leaked Plame ID

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CHENEY_CIA_LEAK?SITE=WVEC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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

The 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.

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The FBI interview summary was released Friday to a watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

In the interview whose participants included federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Cheney told agents that he did not recall having a conversation about either Plame or her husband with President George W. Bush.

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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.


Cheney remarks in leak probe released
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2009/10/cheney_remarks_in_leak_probe_r.html?hpid=topnews

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Oh for the sake of bald-faced hypocrisy, Cheney, it was most likely you.

And if not you, it was 100% surely your suggestion.

[Old and In the Way]

2. A World-Class fella

World-Class Liar
World-Class Warmmonger
World-Class War Profiteer
World-Class Sociopath

[jimshoes]

3. Well, if you're gonna tell some whoppers...

you might as well go for the gold.

[The Gunslinger]

4. So now he's admitting a leak......

[City Lights]

5. You lie, Dick!

Go fuck yourself!

[Traveling_Home]

6. Richard Armitage admitted it, Right?

leaked to Novak.

[emulatorloo]

9. NO. Libby leaked to Novak so Novak would expose her in his column.

Armitage accidently told Bob Woodward while giving a background interview for one of Woodward's books, but Armitage was not part of the plot, and Woodward did not do anything with it. Armitage did not intend to leak, Libby did. Libby probably at request of Cheney.

[Traveling_Home]

11. I so wish Fitz had found what U claim to be true, but

No Fitzmas for You/Me/Us/World.

For Old Times sake

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/30/leak.armitage/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the source who revealed the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to syndicated columnist Robert Novak in 2003, touching off a federal investigation, two sources familiar with Armitage's role tell CNN.

The sources said Armitage revealed Plame's role at the CIA almost inadvertently in a casual conversation with Novak, and it is not clear if he knew her identity was classified at the time.

and

Novak: Armitage is a liar.
Sun Times
BY ROBERT NOVAK
September 13, 2006
When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did. I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.

First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he "thought" might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Amb. Joseph Wilson.

Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column.

An accurate depiction of what Armitage actually said deepens the irony of him being my source. He was a foremost internal skeptic of the administration's war policy, and I long had opposed military intervention in Iraq. Zealous foes of George W. Bush transformed me improbably into the president's lapdog. But they cannot fit Armitage into the left-wing fantasy of a well-crafted White House conspiracy to destroy Joe and Valerie Wilson. The news that he and not Karl Rove was the leaker was devastating news for the left.

[Cleita]

7. We will never know for sure until we get him under oath in an investigation

and wring the truth out of him.

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Waterboarding, maybe?

[Cleita]

13. He would deserve it, but I still hope this country as a whole doesn't

condone torture even if he of all people should get it.

[emulatorloo]

10. Doubt an oath means anything to a liar like Cheney. n/t

[Cleita]

12. A good lawyer can make him sing no matter how much he resists telling the

truth.