Reported here and here: Libby testified that Cheney authorized him the Plame leak. That’s a boomer!
I recall an article somewhere here that Cheney was supposed to deliver Libby $3 million cash to compensate him for covering his ass. What exactly happened? Maybe Libby asked too much, maybe Cheney was not able to fetch his funds from closely watched now offshore locations where he keeps his retirement savings from taxes – it is clear that Libby did not get the money.
I wonder if Cheney will collect now some cash in his turn to cover the ass of other White House folks? It will be too late to give some to Libby, I’m afraid…
What’s interesting is that apparently Libby was extremely clever from the day one. His back-up plan was to be accused, if ever, just in perjury so that he can either get a huge kick-back from Cheney and be rich, or strike a deal with Fitz and be free. Either way he is either rich or free, and Cheney is either poor or behind the bar.
Monica was just waisting her time, this WH is such a golden pipe…
February 9, 2006 at 4:53 pm
More here http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020906J.shtml
February 9, 2006 at 5:13 pm
This is already at WH briefing: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/02/20060209-7.html
Getting hot!
February 9, 2006 at 5:37 pm
http://watchingthewatchers.org/story/2006/2/9/142044/3204
February 10, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Former CIA official says Bush misled country to war
By Cam Simpson
Washington bureau
Published February 10, 2006, 8:29 PM CST
WASHINGTON — The former CIA official charged with managing the U.S. government’s secret intelligence assessments on Iraq says the Bush administration chose war first and then misleadingly used raw data to assemble a public case for its decision to invade.
Paul Pillar, who was the CIA’s national intelligence officer for the Middle East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, said the Bush administration also played on the nation’s fears in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, falsely linking Al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein’s regime even though intelligence agencies had not produced a single analysis supporting “the notion of an alliance” between the two.
Instead, Pillar writes in the upcoming issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, connections were drawn between the terrorists and Iraq because “the administration wanted to hitch the Iraq expedition to the ‘war on terror’ and the threat the American public feared most, thereby capitalizing on the country’s militant post-9/11 mood.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-060210ciasimpson,1,7481530.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
February 27, 2006 at 10:15 am
[...] After Libby did so few weeks ago, now his boss is doing the same. It seems WH, which already regarded Cheney as liability, finally made a decision to get rid of him. It may take few months, but I bet Cheney won’t be vice-president by the end of summer. Vacation time is the best to cut dead meat. [...]
March 3, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Five comments, all from theroxylandr. You set a standard for an unprecedented level of absurdity!
March 20, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Thanks. I love to be the best in something.