Cheney's going down....(And I don't mean cause he shot a guy)
There was a big development this week that in my opinion could lead to the downfall of V.P. Dick Cheney. It is all connected to the investigation by a special prosecutor of who leaked the identity of CIA Agent Valerie Plame to the press.
The background gets a little complex. In the 2003 State of the Union address, King George claimed that Sadam Hussein was trying to get uranium from Africa. Based on this and other WMD claims, we invaded and 'conquered' Iraq a few months later. As we now know, there were no WMD found.
The administration sent Joe Wilson, a former ambassador, to Africa to investigate these claims of uranium to Iraq. He found nothing to support the claims, and he started talking publicly. First he 'leaked' the info to the press, then he went public and went on talk shows. At the same time info was leaking that the CIA had warned that WMD claims were probably not true. This made Bush & Co. look bad.
A decision was made by SOMEONE to leak the fact that Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent, to try to discredit him by showing his bias and a connection between the two stories. The story appeared in the NY TImes, and people were outraged that a covert CIA agent's identity had been leaked. A special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, was named to find out who leaked the info. Judy Miller, the NY Times reporter who got the story, spent months in jail refusing to divulge her source.
Finally, her source, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, released her from her promise of confidentiality. She testified. Libby has now been indicted by the prosecutor for Obstruction, Perjury, etc.
Now the Libby defense team is apparently planning on raising the defense that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq. See THIS link.
So we have the VP and the White House compromising the identity of a covert CIA agent for politcal gain. Agent Plame's contacts and associates, still undercover, were also put at risk. Then they lie, cover up, and even e-mail records are missing that could implicate them. This administration is ruthless, dangerous, and should be impeached.
The background gets a little complex. In the 2003 State of the Union address, King George claimed that Sadam Hussein was trying to get uranium from Africa. Based on this and other WMD claims, we invaded and 'conquered' Iraq a few months later. As we now know, there were no WMD found.
The administration sent Joe Wilson, a former ambassador, to Africa to investigate these claims of uranium to Iraq. He found nothing to support the claims, and he started talking publicly. First he 'leaked' the info to the press, then he went public and went on talk shows. At the same time info was leaking that the CIA had warned that WMD claims were probably not true. This made Bush & Co. look bad.
A decision was made by SOMEONE to leak the fact that Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent, to try to discredit him by showing his bias and a connection between the two stories. The story appeared in the NY TImes, and people were outraged that a covert CIA agent's identity had been leaked. A special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, was named to find out who leaked the info. Judy Miller, the NY Times reporter who got the story, spent months in jail refusing to divulge her source.
Finally, her source, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, released her from her promise of confidentiality. She testified. Libby has now been indicted by the prosecutor for Obstruction, Perjury, etc.
Now the Libby defense team is apparently planning on raising the defense that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq. See THIS link.
So we have the VP and the White House compromising the identity of a covert CIA agent for politcal gain. Agent Plame's contacts and associates, still undercover, were also put at risk. Then they lie, cover up, and even e-mail records are missing that could implicate them. This administration is ruthless, dangerous, and should be impeached.
posted by Mike Grayson @ 9:10 AM
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