cheney was hazy on role in CIA leak...NO, he's a damned liar

[spanone]

Cheney was hazy on role in CIA leak, FBI notes from '04 show

Former vice president Richard B. Cheney told a special prosecutor in 2004 that he was unable to recall his role in most of the pivotal events that led to the uncloaking of a clandestine CIA officer in the run-up to the Iraq war, according to newly released FBI records.

A question-by-question summary of Cheney's May 8, 2004, interview with Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, made public under court order after years of legal maneuvering to keep it secret, portrays a vice president in command of few clear memories about a case that led to great embarrassment for the White House and felony convictions for his chief of staff. Fitzgerald declared in his closing arguments that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's perjury and obstruction of justice left him unable to pierce "a cloud over the vice president."

Cheney neither denied nor acknowledged any memory of directing Libby, his chief of staff, to tell reporters that Valerie Plame, the wife of a prominent war critic, was a CIA officer. Nor did he recall any conversation with Libby in which either man referred to their mutual suspicion that Plame had helped dispatch her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, on "a junket" to explore White House accusations that then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium from Niger for a nuclear weapon.

Dozens of questions from Fitzgerald produced the same result. Less than a year after a turbulent episode about which his contemporary notes display strong feelings, Cheney said he could not remember disclosing Plame's CIA employment -- which he learned from CIA Director George J. Tenet -- to President George W. Bush, Libby, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr., political adviser Karl Rove or five of the vice president's aides.

Asked whether he personally discussed the couple with any reporter, Cheney said he generally did not "take incoming calls from the media." He declined to sign a legal waiver entitling reporters to break any promises not to quote him by name. When Cheney brought the interview to a close, he also refused Fitzgerald's request that he promise not to discuss the case with any other witness.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103003063_pf.html

[jimshoes]

1. And that's the caliber of felons that were

using the US Treasury as their personal piggy bank for 8 interminable years.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. I hold Fitzgerald culpable, almost as much as Cheney. You can be CERTAIN

that Cheney/Bush/etal would've been indicted/impeached if the circumstances had been similar to those in the 90s, with the political tables turned

look what they did to Clinton, and other dems, on the flimsiest of 'evidence.'

Fitzgerald could've sweated who knows how many underlings to have gotten the goods on the big boys

why DIDN't that former DU golden boy?

huh?

?????

[Bitwit1234]

3. He's pulling a Reagan

but Reagan had an excuse when he said he didn't remember things, he had dementia

[Chemisse]

4. What an arrogant bastard.

And he got away with it all.