Fitz to focus on Cheney next

[LiberalPartisan]

May 13, 2006

The role of Vice President Dick Cheney in the criminal case stemming from the outing of White House critic Joseph Wilson's CIA wife is likely to get fresh attention as a result of newly disclosed notes showing that Cheney personally asked whether Wilson had been sent by his wife on a "junket" to Africa.

Cheney's notes, written on the margins of a July 6, 2003 New York Times op-ed column by former ambassador Joseph Wilson, were included as part of a filing Friday night by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the perjury and obstruction case against ex-Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

The notes, Fitzgerald said in his filing, show that Cheney and Libby were "acutely focused" on the Wilson column and on rebutting his criticisms of the White House's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence. In the column, which created a firestorm after its publication, Wilson wrote that he had been dispatched by the CIA without pay to Niger in February, 2002 to investigate an intelligence report that Iraq was seeking uranium from the African country for a nuclear bomb. Wilson said he was told Cheney had asked about the intelligence,but the White House subsequently ignored his findings debunking the Niger claims.


In the margins of the op-ed, Cheney jotted out a series of questions that seemed to challenge many of Wilson's assertions as well as the legitimacy of his CIA sponsored trip to Africa: "Have they done this sort of thing before? Send an Amb. to answer a question? Do we ordinarily send people out pro bono to work for us? Or did his wife send him on a junket?"

It is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for Cheney's own notes to be made public. The notes—apparently obtained as a result of a grand jury subpoena—would appear to make Cheney an even more central witness than had been previously thought in the criminal probe.

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[MichiganVote]

1. Cheney + Indictment + Jail = Orgasm

[graywarrior]

2. Good one.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Big Time!

:evilgrin:

[caledesi]

10. Better than sex! LOL!

[Critters2]

12. That was exactly my thought

"Lay back and enjoy this", I said to myself!!

:smoke:

[Glenda]

14. lol!

:rofl:

[pstans]

17. LMAO

:rofl:

[Jack Rabbit]

3. !!

http://www.dudehisattva.com/Bush%20Administration%20Frogwalk.htm

[BuyingThyme]

4. Dick obstructed justice. No, no, Dick.

You can't lie to Father Fitzmas, even if you're not under oath.

[WolverineDG]

5. Thanks!

I also got asked to be part of Newsweek's "Active Panel." I wonder how many other DUers are going to get asked. :evilgrin:

dg

[Botany]

9. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fav EDV?

I want a "Botany is my Fav." shout out.


So as a legal beagle how bad do you think Fitz is going to squeeze Rove for Cheney? Say a treason
charge or an outing a CIA agent charge over KKKarl's head?

[WolverineDG]

11. Hee!

If you give me a shout-out the next time you talk to Mama, perhaps. :hi:

Prosecutors always push hard on the little fish to get the big ones. Sometimes they win, sometimes they lose. He's got to be trying to flip Rove, & his conviction rate is pretty high. Rove has got to know that once he's indicted, he's going to left twising in the wind. There is no honor among these thieves.

dg

[spanone]

6. Only one dude left after Cheney......

The Deciderer.

[Justice Is Comin]

8. Remember the name

Susan Ralston....just sayin'.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. "rare, if not unprecedented, for Cheney's own notes"... NO $#!% ?

This guy is so paranoid he doesn't trust his own mother ... and I'm pretty sure she's dead. He probably eats his own notes, just missed this one.

Hope they're all as revealing as that classic "This is much better than the crap we're getting from the CIA" (made wrt dubious report of WMD's in Iraq).

[riderinthestorm]

15. Can I just say that the fact that Fitz is still alive is testament

to the fact that our democracy is still alive (underneath the current blanket of wiretapping fascism sweeping across our nation).

In any other fascist country in the world, Fitz woulda died a long time ago.

Please, please Fitz, stay off small planes and be safe!!!!! You are a fragile link to our country's dwindling democracy.

[pstans]

16. Fitx takes out Libby, Rove, Cheney and a Democrat Congress impeach Bu$h

I can see it now!
:woohoo: :woohoo:

:popcorn: