Not So Odd News:
"Cheney to FBI: No idea who leaked Plame's identity"
Citing faulty memory, former Vice President Dick Cheney told federal investigators in a 2004 interview he had no idea who revealed to reporters that Valerie Plame, the wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA.
Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI in the probe of who leaked the former spy's identity to the news media. At the end of Libby's trial, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said "there is a cloud over the vice president" regarding the leaking of Plame's identity.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
"Cheney FBI interview: 72 instances of can't recall"
Not So Odd News:
"Cheney FBI interview: 72 instances of can't recall"
Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.
On 72 occasions, according to the 28-page FBI summary, Cheney equivocated to the FBI during his lengthy May 2004 interview, saying he could not be certain in his answers to questions about matters large and small in the Plame controversy.
How did Scooter Libby find out that the wife of Bush administration war critic Joseph Wilson worked at the CIA? "It turns out that I have a note that I had heard about" Plame's CIA identity "from you," Libby says he told the vice president.
Cheney "cannot recall Scooter Libby telling him how he first heard of Valerie Wilson. It is possible Libby may have learned about Valerie Wilson's employment from the vice president ... but the vice president has no specific recollection of such a conversation."
Song of the Day:
Placebo + Frank Black = Awesome
(I do not own this news story,song or video,only the idea of putting them together)
"Cheney FBI interview: 72 instances of can't recall"
Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.
On 72 occasions, according to the 28-page FBI summary, Cheney equivocated to the FBI during his lengthy May 2004 interview, saying he could not be certain in his answers to questions about matters large and small in the Plame controversy.
How did Scooter Libby find out that the wife of Bush administration war critic Joseph Wilson worked at the CIA? "It turns out that I have a note that I had heard about" Plame's CIA identity "from you," Libby says he told the vice president.
Cheney "cannot recall Scooter Libby telling him how he first heard of Valerie Wilson. It is possible Libby may have learned about Valerie Wilson's employment from the vice president ... but the vice president has no specific recollection of such a conversation."
Song of the Day:
Placebo + Frank Black = Awesome
(I do not own this news story,song or video,only the idea of putting them together)
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