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Hung Out to Dry: One Former VP Chief of Staff
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 11/1/2009
Hung Out to Dry: One Former VP Chief of Staff
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If I were Scooter Libby right now, I’d be seething. I’d be utterly disgusted with the way Dick Cheney hung me out to dry, over and over and over, in his interview with Fitzgerald. Cheney denies any knowledge of issues he and Libby worked on together repeatedly and he denies that ...
CREW LAWSUIT RESULTS IN RELEASE OF NOTES OF CHENEY'S FBI INTERVIEW IN WILSON LEAK CASE
citizensforethics.org - 10/30/2009
CREW LAWSUIT RESULTS IN RELEASE OF NOTES OF CHENEY'S FBI INTERVIEW IN WILSON ...
— citizensforethics.org — Dick Cheney 30 Oct 2009 // Washington, D.C. - Today, after successfully winning a lawsuit against the... Department of Justice, under court order, CREW received documents related to former Vice President Dick Cheney’s interview with the FBI in the ... (more) CREW LAWSUIT RESULTS IN RELEASE OF NOTES OF CHENEY'S FBI ...

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motherjones.com - 10/31/2009
22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Remember About the Plame Case
— motherjones.com — Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame... Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Reponsibility and Ethics in ... (more) 22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Remember About the Plame Case

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Cheney Refused to Release the Journalists
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 10/31/2009
Cheney Refused to Release the Journalists
— emptywheel.firedoglake.com — [Ed. Note: be sure to catch emptywheel's previous post regarding the release today of Cheney's interview materials.]... There is a lot in Cheney’s interview report –we’ll have a busy weekend. But for the moment, let’s start ... (more) Cheney Refused to Release the Journalists

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Wankrunner
Rising Hegemon — Someday we shall come to the moment of Dick Cheney's last words (although he may just say "I don't recall..."), I imagine they'll be something like this: ...

Cheney’s Betrayal Made an IIPA Charge for Libby Possible
Firedoglake — Yesterday, I showed the many ways that Dick Cheney hung his purportedly valued aide, Scooter Libby, out to dry in his interview with Patrick Fitzgerald. But I didn’t do a very good job of explaining the consequences of that action from Cheney. Luckily, perris did that for me. As a reminder, I’ve shown over the years that a great deal of circumstantial evidence suggests that Dick Cheney ordered Scooter Libby to leak a number of things to Judy Miller on July 8, 2003: The NIE (as Libby testified), but also the report ...

How much Viagra did John Madden consume yesterday?
Rising Hegemon — During yesterday's Viking-Packer game Fox had one camera focused on Favre at all times that you could follow during the whole game, even when he was on the sidelines. ...

Did Cheney Deceive FBI On Instructions To Libby?
TPMMuckraker — ... And Marcy Wheeler at Firedoglake adds that Cheney press aide Cathie Martin has corroborated Libby's account, testifying that the veep directed Libby to work with journalists that week in disseminating the NIE. ...

Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, and the “Unremarkable” Meat Grinder
Firedoglake — ... with Plamemania special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.  As is her wont, Emptywheel has already critiqued Cheney’s non-answers from a variety of  ...

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