Junket Jeers (from MSNBC)

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It's really getting good, folks....

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1. And the link to the story is here

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

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By Michael Isikoff
Newsweek
Updated: 6:21 p.m. ET May 13, 2006

May 13, 2006 - 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.

The notes, Fitzgerald said in his filing, show that Cheney and Libby were "acutely focused" on the Wilson column and on rebutting his criticisms of the White House's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence. In the column, which created a firestorm after its publication, Wilson wrote that he had been dispatched by the CIA without pay to Niger in February, 2002 to investigate an intelligence report that Iraq was seeking uranium from the African country for a nuclear bomb. Wilson said he was told Cheney had asked about the intelligence,but the White House subsequently ignored his findings debunking the Niger claims.

[MichiganVote]

2. Well when you spend more time on your job covering your ass...

something or someone usually comes back to bite you...

[Old and In the Way]

4. We've always known that Cheney was at the bottom of this.

I still think he had other motives to neutralize Plame. It has never made sense that they'd make a full blown offensive on this one particular editorial. If they had ignored it or used their Wurlitzer to character smear Wilson, this story would have been over in a week or 2. Yet they were willing commit treason in order to smear Wilson? It just doesn't make sense that this was all about revenge for a single editorial.

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7. It ALWAYS comes back to Dick Cheney

Every scandal. A veritable boomerang of corruption.

[Spazito]

3. In examining the Exhibit provided in the link below, I found it very

interesting to see what portions Cheney had underlined in that Op-Ed that he did NOT point out in his hand written notes at the top of the article:

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/files/Libby_060512_Fitz_Nwspprs_Ex.pdf

Click on 0002, rotate the article then zoom in so you can read the underlined parts.

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5. Wow

That's really damning.

"Or did his wife send him on a junket?"

"Do we ordinarily send people out pro bono to work for us?"

:wow:

[Jack Rabbit]

8. A junket for which Wilson was not paid?

That a great case they've against Wilson, isn't it?

[Spazito]

9. In the article itself, Cheney underlined....

various parts, here is but one I found very interesting:

...the "ambassador told me that she knew about the allegations of uranium sales to Iraq - and that she felt she had already debunked them in her reports to Washington." Nevertheless...

The words enclosed in quotation marks (by me) are the words underlined by Cheney. Why would Cheney underline them yet not question the content of that underlined part when he was posing questions at the top of the article? Certainly, imo, if an ambassador is saying she had already debunked the uranium claim and you underlined that portion, would you not also want to question that aspect, find out more yet only questions about Fitz are the ones he wrote on top. Interesting to say the least, imo.

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10. That whole thing deserves it's own thread

You should start one on that. Seriously.

[Spazito]

11. Hmmm, I might do that, thanks for the suggestion

It is fascinating to me to read the portions he underlined as it gives me a sense of where he was going in terms of his concerns in conjunction with the notes at the top of the article.

[leftchick]

12. which shows dick knew Wilson's wife was at CIA

:)

[Jack Rabbit]

6. When does Fitzgarald start calling Cheney 'Vice President A'?

Just wondering?

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13. For someone who supposed didn't know who Wilson was

and had no knowledge of his trip to Niger, Cheney seems to know a lot about him and the trip.

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14. Spiro Cheney? Dick Agnew? I can hope. n/t

[DemonFighterLives]

15. Here's hoping that GFY cheneys joy ride on America is about over

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How could dubby ever know? And fire the puppetmaster?