Tapes Reveal Libby Speaks Carefully About Cheney

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020701040.html

Tapes Reveal Libby Speaks Carefully About Cheney
By Amy Goldstein and Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, February 7, 2007; 1:08 PM

During two sessions before a federal grand jury, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald pressed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby--unsuccessfully--to reveal that Vice President Cheney shared responsibility for the leak of a CIA officer's identity, according to audiotapes played this morning in Libby's perjury trial.

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At one point, Fitzgerald asked Libby if he had conferred with Cheney about whether to mention Plame as Libby carried out the vice president's directive to contact reporters in an effort to debunk Wilson's criticism of the administration's war policy in the summer of 2003. Libby replied that sometime after columnist Robert D. Novak disclosed Plame's name on July 14, 2003, "I may have asked you know, 'Do you want me to refer to that?' "

Immediately, though, Libby backtracked, telling the grand jury: "I have recollections of talking to the vice president at times about, does he want me to share some point of fact with reporters . . . I don't recall specifically having a conversation with him . . . about sharing--about Wilson's wife. But it's possible. I just don't recall it."

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He said he twice went privately to the vice president to ask whether Cheney wanted to know all the details of his conversations with reporters about Wilson and Wilson's wife in late June and early July.

"I would have been happy to unburden myself of it," Libby testified. "He didn't want to hear it . . . I have no problem telling him what happened."

[mitchleary]

1. Well

you never know when you are going to have the urge to commit suicide, or have some kind of accident...

[tanyev]

2. What a good little soldier.

Think he'll stay that loyal when none of them come to visit him in prison?

[youngdem]

3. A deal is firmly in place

He takes the fall, and so long as he doesn't take Cheney, Bush or Rove down with him, tBush will pardon him (along with every other neo-con war criminal) on the way out in Jan 09.


I'd stake lefty on it.

[AndyTiedye]

4. Was He Feeling "All Choked Up" When Talking About Cheney?

[Floyd53]

5. So what, who cares, what does it change?

Libby spills the beans - period - end of story. Nothing is going to happen, nothing ever does. It's just a bunch of hoopla about how bad, how wrong, how illegal, how stupid Bush and company is. So what, we've known that from day one. I'm thinking there isn't going to be consequences for Bush, ever. Maybe that's where it's at. Maybe our mistake was letting this little runt get into office in the first place and now we are screw forever. How about that? Maybe the United States has made a change, a sea change. No going back. Maybe the Constitution is just an interesting part of our history and it's been replace by a The Decider. We are no longer defined by our Constitution. Those laws are made to keep us in line, not protect us. All of us are slaves of a system gone haywire. So now what? Most people are like me, scared, fearful, unable to stand up in public and show the world how angry I am. I'm a fool and I know it. I need the safety and security of my cozy little house, in my cozy little world, with my cozy little family. I retire soon and I'm tired.