Cheney directed entire Valerie Plame outing

[PhilipShore]

Capitol Hill Blue
News, AP | Saturday, February 10th, 2007

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/wp/2007/02/10/2049

David Addington, chief legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, says he was taken aback when the White House started making public pronouncements about the CIA leak investigation.

In the fall of 2003, President Bush’s press secretary was categorically denying that either Karl Rove or I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was involved in exposing the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA employee married to a critic of the war in Iraq.

“Why are you making these statements?” Addington asked White House communications director Dan Bartlett.

“Your boss is the one who wanted” them, Bartlett replied, referring to Cheney.

[zulchzulu]

1. Don't pressure Dick! He has a bad heart! He might...um...yunno...

Poor little war-profiteering, treasonous, lying, scumbag...Dick... he's trying to drink away his memories of the time he shot a man in the face a year ago...

Let's let him off the hook...just this time. He promises not to get us into an another illegal quagmire ever again...well, maybe...unless...yunno...

[boobooday]

2. Of course he did . . .

And Karl Rove said . . . BRILLIANT! And Georgie said . . . DUH . . . OKAY!

[indepat]

3. You mean this might have come from the top? Surely they wouldn't stoop to

playing around with national security and maybe survival just to sell their little pre-emptive war. Surely not. :eyes:

[boobooday]

5. How dare you suggest

That the deception, the manipulation, the slaughter was done for anything less than the noblest of motivations, and the deepest faith in American exceptionalism! We only kill them for their own good, in order to liberate them! Bush, the heroic and all-seeing one, knew that he had to do whatever it took -- if it meant sacrificing democracy here in order to bomb Iraq in to democracy, well so be it. He has resolve! He is tenacious, as Clint Eastwood told us!

And of course, Dick Cheney's idea of the "shining light of democracy" is the impact of a bomb dropped with all the bravery of being out of range.

And the rockets' red glare
The bombs bursting in air . . .


Take cover, you're about to be liberated!

[indepat]

9. Think I'm beginning to see the light in the right aura

[MH1]

4. I don't think Capitol Hill Blue is considered a reliable source.

Just what I've heard.

:shrug:

[Bunny]

6. It was a Yahoo news story as well:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070210/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_white_house

[Auntie Bush]

7. It wasn't just to make war...it was to make Billions for he and his cronies.!

The biggest heist in history! Could someone approach him with a huge magnet in their pocket. Just wondering!

Purely just a scientific question agent Mike.

[mzteris]

8. something like this?

Carlyle Makes A Killing With Defense Sale

London - We all know that making a handsome profit is the raison d'etre of private equity firms, but some seem to take the pursuit to a whole other level. The Carlyle Group raked in an 800% return on its investment on Friday when it sewed up the sale of its 10.3% stake in QinetiQ Group, the British defense research company, said to be the inspiration behind doddering gadget maven Q in the James Bond films.



http://www.forbes.com/markets/2007/02/09/carlyle-qinetiq-stake-markets-equity-cx_po_0209markets13.html