Cheney implicated in leak of CIA operative's identiy

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=c65b2484511e0a1b

Vice President Dick Cheney and then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley led a campaign beginning in March 2003 to discredit former Ambassador Joseph Wilson for publicly criticizing the Bush administration's intelligence on Iraq, according to current and former administration officials.

The officials work or had worked in the State Department, the CIA and the National Security Council in a senior capacity and had direct knowledge of the Vice President's campaign to discredit Wilson.

In interviews over the course of two days last week, these officials were urged to speak on the record for this story. But they resisted, saying they had already testified before a grand jury investigating the leak of Wilson's wife, covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, and added that speaking out against the administration and specifically Vice President Cheney would cause them to lose their jobs and subject their families to vitriolic attacks by the White House.

The officials said they decided to speak out now because they have become disillusioned with the Bush administration's policies regarding Iraq and the flawed intelligence that led to the war.

They said their roles, along with several others at the CIA and State Department, included digging up or "inventing" embarrassing information on the former Ambassador that could be used against him, preparing memos and classified material on Wilson for Cheney and the National Security Council, and attending meetings in Cheney's office to discuss with Cheney, Hadley, and others the efforts that would be taken to discredit Wilson.
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Happy Valentines Day Dick!!!

[bemildred]

1. Yes, yes, it had nothing to do with Iran, nothing at all. nt

[lovuian]

2. I wonder if Tenet is the CIA official coming clean???

Something is definitely up!!!

[lovuian]

3. And I didn't know Albright was the first target of Cheney

and how Wilson got in the middle of it!!!

[NanceGreggs]

4. I hereby declare February ...

... to be National Whistleblowers Month! And the more that come forward, the more will be encouraged to come forward ...

Happy Whistleblowers' Month, everyone at DU!!!

[lovuian]

5. Ya the month of Presidents day

the true Presidents of America... not the one who stole it

[lovuian]

6. Jason Leopold the investigative reporter who broke this story

http://www.makethemaccountable.com/leopold/index.htm

Jason Leopold spent two years covering California's electricity crisis as bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires. He has broken numerous stories on the financial machinations Enron engaged in and his investigative pieces on the company have been published in The Nation, Salon, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, CBS Marketwatch, Time magazine, The New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur and numerous other publications. Mr. Leopold left Dow Jones last April to write a book about California's electricity crisis.


This guy is a helluva reporter!!!

[NanceGreggs]

7. This guy is a helluva reporter!!!

And unfortunately seems to be of a dying breed. But I'm glad there are at least a FEW of them left.

[lovuian]

8. Ya Nance he looks like he is a truthout.org writer too

and also with the moveon.org group too

Cheney is really going to have to be forced out ...by being arrested...

[Roy]

10. I would not want it any other way (hee hee)

But then again.... gone is gone.

[NanceGreggs]

11. I've just GOT to keep believing ...

... that there are MORE of him out there.

"And the darkest hour is always before the storm ..." Dare we hope that the present political storm (DeLay scandal, Abramoff scandal, Libby scandal, and now the Dicki scandal) is just the prelude to some really kick-ass journalists coming forward and doing their thing?

From my lips to God's ears ...

[lovuian]

9. Thanks so much for the DU valentine that was so sweet!!!

I loved it and I don't know who did it ....But that was so sweet!!!

Love the DU!!!

[lovuian]

12. kick

:kick:

[Roland99]

13. And you can read about the damage inflicted from that leak here >>>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2105487&mesg_id=2105487


Although I reckon everyone's already seen that one. ;)

[EVDebs]

14. Some other news was breaking around that time. NSA spying on Saudis

was squelched by BushCo and that was just making the news, not the headlines though.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2107650&mesg_id=2108363