Cheney staff accused of role in CIA leak

[NeoConsSuck]

WASHINGTON — Vice President Cheney was aware of a meeting held by his staff that started a chain of events that ended with the "effective betrayal of our country," former U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson charged Thursday in an interview with USA TODAY.

That betrayal was the revealing of his wife's identity as an undercover CIA operative, said Wilson, who served in diplomatic or White House posts in the first Bush administration and the Clinton administration before leaving government service in 1998.

Knowingly revealing a CIA operative's name is a federal offense. Last July's leak of the name and CIA status of Valerie Plame, Wilson's wife, mushroomed into a red-hot controversy by fall. The leak is being investigated by the Justice Department. Columnist Robert Novak, who first reported the news about Plame, has said his original source was "two senior administration officials."


http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-29-cheney-cia-leak_x.htm

[sniffa]

1. perp waLk

i wanna see them cuffed.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Cuffed, with Robert Novak trailing them.

There's no way to justify his actions. He's simply diseased.

[dbt]

5. Cuffs, leg irons, waist chains and orange jumpsuit

Just like Susan McDougal!

:bounce:
dbt

[aquart]

7. Orange jumpsuits!

I got a looooong memory.

[bahrbearian]

3. Oh so now it's the staffs fault, who next some intern.

[zbird]

4. Yep, the buck stops over there.

The party of personal responsibility, don't ya know.

[bushwakker]

6. Let the frog march begin*

[BlueEyedSon]

8. "Ribbet, ribbet!"

yeah, baby!

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. For the man, who ran 9-11 from the WH Situation Room

And allowed 3000 Americans die, while he watched on the TV, he would think nothing of outing a CIA agent, if he needed to discredit an enemy.

[Moderator]

10. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=519683