Hand-Written Notes By Cheney Disclosed In Fitzgerald Investigation...

[BurtWorm]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/#a020953

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | May 13, 2006 at 05:13 PM
READ MORE: Patrick Fitzgerald, Scooter Libby, New York Times, Halliburton, Dick Cheney, CIA

The role of Vice President Dick Cheney in the criminal case stemming from the outing of White House critic Joseph Wilson's CIA wife is likely to get fresh attention as a result of newly disclosed notes showing that Cheney personally asked whether Wilson had been sent by his wife on a "junket" to Africa.

Cheney's notes, written on the margins of a July 6, 2003 New York Times op-ed column by former ambassador Joseph Wilson, were included as part of a filing Friday night by prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the perjury and obstruction case against ex-Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12774274/site/newsweek/

[tishaLA]

1. Oh dear!

I think Lynne Cheney just caught a case of the vapors!

[BurtWorm]

2. "The notes—apparently obtained as a result of a grand jury subpoena—

The notes—apparently obtained as a result of a grand jury subpoena—would appear to make Cheney an even more central witness than had been previously thought in the criminal probe."

[thereismore]

3. Why did Cheney keep some old newspaper anyway? What an ass. nt

[BurtWorm]

4. Why did Monica keep a stained dress?

:shrug:

Maybe Cheney kept it because his precious handwriting was on it.

[Roland99]

5. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1180074

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Was the Friday news dump postponed to Saturday this week?

Good grief. I haven't seen the executive branch have such a bad day since April 30, 1973: White House Domestic Affairs Assistant John Ehrlichman, WH Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resigned and WH Council John Dean was fired. After that, Watergate couldn't be stopped until Nixon was gone, too.

I was watching ABC news covering Nixon's announcement that evening. Nixon described his new Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, as "a man of unimpeachable integrity." I was surprised he'd use a word like unimpeachable under the circumstances. Later in the journalists' discussion, Sam Donaldson brought up for the first time the possibility that Nixon could be impeached. Howard K. Smith concluded the program with "Let's hope we don't hear ugly word again." Within a year and a half, Smith gave an editorial urging Nixon to resign rather than face impeachment.

[BurtWorm]

7. Makes all the "buzz" about the immigration speak seem kind of

lame by comparison. Even all the focus on Rove seems a tiny bit misplaced.

[Maddy McCall]

8. Wait a second. So the MSM can get copies of actual documents...

that Fitz filed Friday night related to Libby's case, but they can't even get wind of a Rove indictment?

[BurtWorm]

9. Fitzgerald's gooood!

;)