Cheney admitted to FBI he altered Plame talking points in a manner certain to expose her
By David Neiwert Tuesday Dec 23, 2008 1:00pm
Murray Waas has uncovered a major piece of evidence tying Vice President Dick Cheney to the efforts to attack Joe Wilson by exposing his wife as a CIA operative:
Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a still-highly confidential FBI report, admitted to federal investigators that he rewrote talking points for the press in July 2003 that made it much more likely that the role of then-covert CIA-officer Valerie Plame in sending her husband on a CIA-sponsored mission to Africa would come to light.
Cheney conceded during his interview with federal investigators that in drawing attention to Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s Africa trip reporters might also unmask her role as CIA officer.
Cheney denied to the investigators, however, that he had done anything on purpose that would lead to the outing of Plame as a covert CIA operative. But the investigators came away from their interview with Cheney believing that he had not given them a plausible explanation as to how he could focus attention on Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s trip without her CIA status also possibly publicly exposed. At the time, Plame was a covert CIA officer involved in preventing Iran from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, and Cheney’s office played a central role in exposing her and nullifying much of her work.
Cheney revised the talking points on July 8, 2003– the very same day that his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, met with New York Times reporter Judith Miller and told Miller that Plame was a CIA officer and that Plame had also played a central role in sending her husband on his CIA sponsored trip to the African nation of Niger.
Go read it all. Cheney may believe he got off the hook in the Plame affair, but it may not be over yet.
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please santa? I don't need the xbox.
I don't pretend to understand it.
The players in this administration seem to walk under a magic star that shield them from the law.
And I ask that no one else accept it either.
....these monsters appear to be able to walk on water...like Obama(snark).
Maybe I'm just crazy...ok...I am crazy...but I have been hearing alot more people on my teevee talkin about it...
Not to mention my friends.
You mean like this one? I think Cheney is a bit closer to King Koopa, though.
When the fuck is he gonna be indicted?
Oh David, please don't get my hopes up. I'm so worn out from hoping and being let down. I wish cheney would have to face consequences for what he has done but I'm afraid his pardon has already been written.
boy are you gonna be worn out after the NEXT four years!
/snark
Isn't Cheney changing the story on Plame either a felony or perjury?
Treason. Plain and simple.
Try, convict, firing squad. Make the chimp watch too.
Why aren't more people upset about this shit?
Probably because W wanted us to go shopping and go about our business..."Nothing to see" as scandals get swept under the rug. Or better yet shredded in Cheney's incinerator.
God damn them all.
Cheney in an orange jump suit would make my christmas so very merry.
In the spirit of the season he would look good in a red jump with white piping.
he knows--like, i think, everyone here knows deeeeeeeeeeep down--he will never be forced to answer for his crimes against the consitution and his crimes against humanity. the democrats, the new admin, everyone in positions of power will simply let bygones be bygones. and this perpy perv will walk
emperor cheney wears no clothes, and he knows it. and he knows that no one is going to make him cover his wrinkly privates.
Talk about ongoing executive privelege!
Arrest his arse for treason, already!
everything. There will be no trials, nobody to pardon, history will be revised and I, WILL NEVER FORGET!
Since when did the united states become an anarchy? Laws don't matter anymore eh?
who can't afford to buy their way out of trouble.
Remember Martha Stewart?
Or Siegelman?
Niether one of them were poor.
It's not only a matter of wealth, but one of political affiliation.
And yet the Christofascist traitor is still breathing. Amazing. The United States at one time used to try and execute traitors. Now is a time when we need to resume that practice.
Period.
"Have I mentioned I eat babies for breakfast?"
He is crying out (as I think Michael Ratner has suggested) to have a crime "on the table" for which Bush can then pardon him. Bush will try to portray Cheney's crimes as just trying to serve his country as best as he knew how. Trouble is, "serving his country best" to Cheney is pretty much the same as a jackal serving up wildebeest for himself. Too, if Cheney's crimes involve Bush, Bush is not legally able (unless we do not stand up for the rule of law!!!) to pardon someone whose crime also implicates the presidency.
Doesn't cut it period. There a debate weather shrub can pardon failure to faithfully execute his office.
We ,America, will not accept any pardons for anyone not convicted of a crime, This is a scam dreamed up by ford (rep) that has never been challenged in a court of law. Go find a definition of pardon that is this broad in scope. The courts or the streets your call.
guantanamo.
cheney is going to admit to everything
now because bush is about to pardon him
for EVERYTHING. fuck both of them.
If he hasn't been charged yet?
Whoever is in charge of that shit BETTER NOT charge anyone with anything until shrub is the fuck out of the WH.
Obama and Biden have practically written off any investigation of Bush, Cheney, et al.
They would much rather look forward. All this looking backward stuff is for liberal losers.
He'll be the idol of every dumbass criminal rotting in cellblock only because he got caught...and an inspiration to budding lawbreakers who believe that they can "get away with it like Dick."
What a fine American.
curricula for the 2009/2020 school year based on the pending Cheney success as we speak...
no doubt!
Cheney wanted the press hounds to follow a different path so he dropped the Plame name and occupation out there and it worked. The majority of the press took off in the, Plame working at the CIA and sending her husband on some mission story, direction. I remember there were some republican senators who were saying that Plame wasn't undercover because she drove her car to work every day.
It never seems it's the big things big crooks get caught for, it's the lesser ones they do and forget to cover their asses.
And their ilk.
Because we're too wimpy to actually do it.
The Congress critters and the Senate...they're the wimps.
or traitors to their sworn DUTY to defend the constitution against ALL enemies foreign or domestic.
can dream about it, I wouldn't give him the firing squad.
Life in a federal maximum security prison without chance for parole would be a fate worse than death for this traitor.
I mean, look at him - scurrying around like a fat little weasel saying
"Yeah, I advocated torture - I outed an agent - Who cares about WMD"
And nearly saying, "Whaddya think you're gonna do about it?"
And to think that just 30 odd years ago we used to hold Veeps at least somewhat accountable.
It's official, wealthy Republicans are above the law.
"It's official, wealthy Republicans *think they* are above the law."
There...fixed it for ya Mick.
I know it's not nice to talk about what happens to some men in prison, but Cheney isn't a nice man, so I'm going to do some not so nice thinking about what might happen to him if he is ever incarcerated.
and won't be around any prisoners that would want to cornhole him...
But hey...ya never know, it couldn't happen to a nicer SOB.
of Al Capone behind bars.
On his first day, he cut to the front of the dinner line, when a large connvict tried to stop him.
Capone said, "Don't you know who I am?"
The convict said, "Yeah, you're a fat little bitch!"
Whereupon the convict and his buddies beat the dogshit out of Capone before the guards could separate them.
Big important Al Capone became a shivering, frightened shell of his former self.
The tertiary syphillis didn't help.
I have a dream....
Without his cronies to help him, he wasn't shit.
His admission to outing a covert CIA agent: Plame. War for profit with the now, Dubai company Halliburton. His admission to approving torture. His cover-up to invade Iraq....with no evidence of WMD is BLOODY TREASON! And, there is a lot more! Wake up America. This traitor is murderous. Murder of American soldiers. This man is THE ENEMY OF THE CONSTITUTION! Hang him! Be American about it. Show the children we are not stupid pacifist's! Bring on the Big Stick and put a rope on it! That, would be American!
Teddy Roosevelt
.
But after a trial...we gotta at least try to LOOK somewhat civilized. ;)
Obama has to just keep quiet and wait until after Jan 20th. And then, He'll have the power to act.
mighten he not whisper it!
Amen to that. More power to him.
Try to have a good one despite the shitty economy.
Enjoy your friends and family. Drink, eat, and blah blah blah...
Stay safe everyone!
PEACE!
I'm outta here like Vladimir.
Where is the damn Fort Smith Hanging Judge when we need him?
I grew up in Fort Smith: http://www.historybuff.com/library/refhanging...
fry his ass.
There's not a pan big enough.
Cheney is letting his deeds be known bit by bit in hopes that he can slide through without being noticed and or prosecuted.
I think that he's daring anybody to do anything.
He's a megalomaniac who breaks the law, damns the world and roars.
And it appears that he has buffaloed anybody in a position to do anything about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI-8hst0bho
in this nation of thieves and liars for an indictment of treason to be brought against this man? The man should have been arrested at the moment he admitted potentially compromising the agent. Then it's up to a judge to decide.
Law enforcement - now there's an oxymoron.
is still a crime.
"Michael Jackson, OJ Simpson, Robert Blake, not guilty. Martha Stewart picks up a phone? Five months in jail." - Jay Leno
FOR GOD's SAKE... hold the indictments till AFTER Januar 20, 2009.
Let's not give bushy a chance to pardon Cheney's ass!
call nancy pelosi.
Cheney knew exactly what he was doing...He went after Joe Wilson by exposing his wife as a CIA agent. Saying He didn't know what happened is a lie. Cheney is a liar and a traitor; he compromised a CIA agent and should suffer the consequences of his actions. He is not above the law. He did harm to this country, used politics as a tool against political enemies and now he any anyone else involved should be indicted and brought to justice.
Dont' bother to call Speaker Pelosi she's on the GOP pay roll too.
Now Cheney put people in positions for his protection. He lined the Judges and even Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey to make sure nothing happen to him. Yes Libby fell on the sword but that's loyality in the GOP Party. Democratics got paid for their cooperation and we know who they are by their vote. Obama knows this too that's why he wants the Public to see who these crooks are by publishing their votes. The Media Executives are doing their best to keep the spin going to confuse the people. Patrick Fitzgerald clearly said Obama and his team were not involved in the Illinois Govenor's crimes. Yes every station kept saying they were. Cheney/Libby/Rove have nightmares when they see the name Patrick J. Fitzgerald. He was so smart he didn't file all the charges leaving some for later as he said the cloud is over Cheney. The Judge in the Valerie Plame case was on the take and got paid big bucks to toss the case out. Now the US Supreme Court is forced to follow the Law or be seen as corrupt favoring the GOP. Valerie was smart to let the case continue until Obama/Biden got in office. New Attorney General and even fired Republican Lawyers will be on hand. Funny the US has a President who knows Constitutional Law while Bush only knows alcohol and drugs. Cheney the college drop out learned from the Nixon team so now this will be a shocker for him as well. It will be good to have an educated honest President and Vice President in office again after 8 long years of having corrupt idiots.
That's some resume Darth Cheney put together. He's basically admitted to ordering the illegal act of torture 33 times and committing treason by outing an acting CIA asset. He's daring us all to do something about it too. He was so embarrassed that 9/11 happened on his watch that he became what he was trying to kill.
Maybe he misunderestimated the boss.
A Thorn in the side of all who Respect the Rule of Law.
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