WP: Ex-CIA Official Testifies About Libby's Calls (worth the read!)

[UpInArms]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012400944.html?nav=hcmodule

A former high-ranking CIA official testified yesterday that, when Vice President Cheney's agitated chief of staff called him out of the blue in June 2003 to ask what he knew about a CIA-sponsored trip to Niger, he jumped to get answers.

Summoned out of a meeting with the CIA director to take I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's urgent call later that same afternoon, then-Associate Deputy Director Robert Grenier said he relayed all he had learned about former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, the man behind news reports of the trip that had Libby so concerned.

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Grenier said that Libby was fixated on one set of facts that Grenier relayed. He asked, would the CIA release to the news media the information that Wilson's trip was supposed to answer questions raised not just by Cheney's office, but by the State Department and the Defense Department as well?

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Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary who is expected to testify for the prosecution, also has a motive to help the prosecution, Wells has said. Fleischer had demanded immunity before he would talk about his conversations with Libby, then had admitted to government prosecutors that he had spoken to several reporters about Wilson's wife in the days before he left his job.

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[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Libby screwed himself

and it looks like he's going to screw the rest of the WH too, just so he can claim he never betrayed his boss.

Scooter forgot he took an other to protect and uphold the constitution, not Dick Cheney.

[atreides1]

3. Scooter forgot he took an other to protect and uphold the constitution

He's not the only one who took that oath, but like him most that have taken it never took it seriously, and now cover their actions with these 4 words:"I was following orders"

No matter who says it, it still isn't an excuse!!!!

[salin]

2. k & r