Cheney may be entangled in CIA leak investigation

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Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- A special counsel is focusing on whether Vice President Dick Cheney played a role in leaking a covert CIA agent's name, according to people familiar with the probe that already threatens top White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis Libby.

The special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, has questioned current and former officials of President George W. Bush's administration about whether Cheney was involved in an effort to discredit the agent's husband, Iraq war critic and former U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson, according to the people.

Fitzgerald has questioned Cheney's communications adviser Catherine Martin and former spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise and ex-White House aide Jim Wilkinson about the vice president's knowledge of the anti-Wilson campaign and his dealings on it with Libby, his chief of staff, the people said. The information came from multiple sources, who requested anonymity because of the secrecy and political sensitivity of the investigation.

New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who has now testified twice before a federal grand jury probing the case after spending 85 days in jail for refusing to cooperate with Fitzgerald, wrote in yesterday's New York Times that Fitzgerald asked her whether the vice president ``had known what his chief aide,'' Libby, ``was doing and saying'' regarding Wilson, a critic of the war in Iraq.

Fitzgerald has told lawyers involved in the case that he hopes to conclude soon -- the grand jury's term expires Oct. 28, although it could be extended -- and there is a growing sense among knowledgeable observers that the outcome will involve serious criminal charges. ``Fitzgerald is putting together a big case,'' Washington attorney Robert Bennett, who represents Miller, said on the ABC-TV program ``This Week'' yesterday.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...top_world_news

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Keep dreaming.

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Originally Posted by patteeu

Keep dreaming.

Keep sucking back the Kool-Aid and keep telling yourself the whole thing is just a liberal conspiracy.

rofl

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Originally Posted by patteeu

Keep dreaming.

Keep getting b*tch-slapped by reality and the facts:

Cheney's Office Is a Focus in Leak Case
Sources Cite Role of Feud With CIA

By Jim VandeHei and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, October 18, 2005; Page A01

As the investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's name hurtles to an apparent conclusion, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has zeroed in on the role of Vice President Cheney's office, according to lawyers familiar with the case and government officials. The prosecutor has assembled evidence that shows Cheney's long-running feud with the CIA contributed to the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame...

...One former CIA official told prosecutors early in the probe about efforts by Cheney's office and his allies at the National Security Council to obtain information about Wilson's trip as long as two months before Plame was unmasked in July 2003, according to a person familiar with the account...

http://tinyurl.com/9msx6

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Here's the sweet part: Wilson/Plame may subpoena Bush/Cheney.

Per the Paula Jones 1997 decision by the Supreme Court. Yep, the chickens have come home to roost. When the monkeys howl over this, it will be especially sweet music.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...JZyPo&refer=us

Miller, who wrote many influential pre-war war stories about Hussein's purported weapons of mass destruction that the Times later acknowledged were flawed, told the grand jury she recommended in 2003 that the newspaper pursue the Plame story. Jill Abramson, the newspaper's managing editor, said Miller never made any such recommendation.

In an interview yesterday, Wilson said that once the criminal questions are settled, he and his wife may file a civil lawsuit against Bush, Cheney and others seeking damages for the alleged harm done to Plame's career.

If they do so, the current state of the law makes it likely that the suit will be allowed to proceed -- and Bush and Cheney will face questioning under oath -- while they are in office. The reason for that is a unanimous 1997 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that Paula Jones' sexual harassment suit against then-President Bill Clinton could go forward immediately, a decision that was hailed by conservatives at the time.

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New York Daily News source believes senior White House official has flipped in leak case

The case of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame is set to explode.

The New York Daily News is set to report in Tuesday editions that a well-placed source interviewed by the newspaper believes a senior White House official has flipped and may be helping the prosecutor in the case, RAW STORY has learned.

The Daily News will reveal that a top source believes that based on the questioning of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and his other contacts with the investigation, someone in the White House has turned.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/New_Yo...laim_1017.html

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Updates:

"There are 22 files that Fitzgerald is looking at for potential indictment in the Plame matter. These include Stephen Hadley, Rove, Libby, Cheney, and Mary Matalin, plus others. Hadley tells friends he expects to be indicted. No wonder folks are nervous at the White House."

- Larry C. Johnson http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_webl...tidbit_on.html

Rumor: Cheney to step down, Rice in as VP

Sparked by stories that suggest Cheney's office "is involved in the Plame-CIA spy link investigation, government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice president might step aside and that Bush would elevate Sleazy Rice." according to
The rumor spread so fast that some Republicans by late morning were already drawing up reasons why Rice couldn't get the job or run for president in 2008."

-- U.S. News and World Report http://politicalwire.com/archives/2005/10/18/

Second Cheney aide helping with the noose?

A second Cheney aide is cooperating with the special prosecutor's Plame probe, those close to the investigation say.

Late Monday, several sources familiar with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s probe said John Hannah, a key Cheney aide and one of the architects of the Iraq war, was cooperating with Fitzgerald after being told that he was identified by witnesses as a co-conspirator in the leak. Sources said Hannah was not given immunity, but was likely offered a “deal” in exchange for information that could result in indictments of key White House officials.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Second...leak_1019.html