Jason Leopold: Cheney's Role In Plame Outing Under Scrutiny

[althecat]

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00241.htm

Vice President's role in outing of CIA agent under examination, sources close to prosecutor say

By Jason Leopold

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, individuals close to Fitzgerald say. Plame’s husband was a vocal critic of prewar intelligence used by President George W. Bush to build support for the Iraq war.

The investigation into who leaked the officer's name to reporters has now turned toward a little known cabal of administration hawks known as the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), which came together in August 2002 to publicize the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. WHIG was founded by Bush chief of staff Andrew Card and operated out of the Vice President’s office.

Fitzgerald’s examination centers on a group of players charged with not only selling the war, but according to sources familiar with the case, to discredit anyone who openly “disagreed with the official Iraq war” story.

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00241.htm

[autorank]

1. Way to go!!!! Fitzgerald is the key to the whole thing.

What a "scoop"...and not a wee one!

:yourock:

[althecat]

2. Cheers autorank... I wonder why this was moved from LBN....

Sometimes they let Scoop's run there.. sometimes not...

[autorank]

4. Well, I'm an expert. I'm the worst LBN poster ever!

I have no idea. I do have a track record of every post but my very last (the LATimes story on abuser priests recently) being moved...dupes, too old, you name it.

This is just great.

Rokken!

[althecat]

3. It is worth noting that Leopold made the Libby Connection back in July

... well before anyone else made it...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0507/S00227.htm
Report Shows Karl Rove May Have Lied to Federal Agents, a Federal Crime, During Oct 2003 Testimony Into CIA Agent Leak
By Jason Leopold

"Moreover, evidence suggests that President Bush was aware as early as October 2003 that Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, were the sources who leaked Plame’s undercover CIA status to reporters. And after the president was briefed about the issue the president said publicly that the source of the leak will never be found."

[lovuian]

5. Its sooo obvious and so proveable!!! Lies And Lies and Lies!!!

and we still keep hearing lies!!!

[autorank]

6. "Scoop" scoop now playing in GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5097781

"let the word go forth"