Cheney Failed to Answer 72 FBI Questions - CBS News »
Posted By TimALoftis 1 month ago in Political News
(AP) 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.
The Cheney interview reflects a team of prosecutors and FBI agents trying to find out whether the leaks of Plame's CIA identity were orchestrated at the highest level of the White House and carried out by, among others, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff.
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Hhussk1 month ago
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FTA:
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How did Libby find out that the wife of Bush administration war critic Joseph Wilson worked at the CIA?
That is a call for "speculation". I'd advise the Vice President against speculating.
This is nothing new; I'm sure it's interesting to liberals, much as the right-wing dwelled on how Hillary Clinton "couldn't recall" back in the days of WhiteWater.
Sorry, this is not much of a story. I won't drop it because it is recent, but it would be a waste to continue commenting on something that conspiracy theorists will be dwelling on for years to come.-
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Endoscopy1 month ago
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There is the lies of the left. Libby did not reveal it. Another person told the prosecutor they did early in the investigation. The prosecutor swore the person to not say anything for several months. Libby was convicted on a he said I said problem with two different people remembering conversations they had months before differently. That was not really enough to convict except that the prosecutor made a lot of innuendos making it seem worse. Which of you would remember a conversation made months earlier absolutely correctly in all details? I probably would not even remember talking to the person.
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thoughtforsale1 month ago
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It does´t surprise me that Dick Cheney didn´t make "bella figura" in this interview! He couldn´t explain where the evidence for the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction should come from, because there was none. I wouldn´t be surprised either, if he´d have done everything possible to avoid that a critical voice from the inside of the intelligence circle became too loud. This interview must have been somehow like doomsday for him, but then we will, as the Bible says, not know one answer on 1000 questions and not only on 72 ...
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Charlson1 month ago
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It's quite obvious, Mr Cheney and other government officials views him as above the law. If any other had outed an active CIA agent and jeopardized and endangered their colleagues and contacts, they would have been prosecuted and in federal prison by now.
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Dionys1 month ago
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As Goober said. Exposing the ID of an active CIA agent is treason. Not only because it puts her life and the lives of her family at risk, but because it places everyone that's ever been in contact with her at risk, along with intelligence.
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That you would support such an action of treason doesn't surprise me in the slightest, though.
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