Mother Jones: 22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Recall About The Plame Case

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http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/10/22-things-dick-cheney-cant-remember-about-plame-case

22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Recall About the Plame Case

— By Nick Baumann | Fri October 30, 2009 2:06 PM PST

Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the Justice Department last year to obtain the interview notes; a judge finally ordered their release on October 1. In the interview, Cheney demonstrated a behavior common among Bush administration officials under investigation: he couldn't remember much of anything. Here's a non-comprehensive list of 22 things Dick Cheney claimed he couldn't recall about the Plame case, in the order they appear in the FBI's notes:

• Whether the Wilson trip was discussed during any of the visits he made to the CIA with his Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby.
  
• Any reaction he had to Nicholas Kristof's New York Times' article about the Wilson visit at the time the article was published.
  
• Whether he discussed the Wilson situation with George Tenet at their meeting on June 10, 2003.
  
• Who he spoke to about Joe Wilson's July 6, 2003 editorial (he did remember speaking to someone, but not who it was).
  
• What happened to the Joe Wilson op-ed after he wrote on it suggesting that Valerie Plame Wilson had sent Joe Wilson on a "junket," and put it in his outbox.
  
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• Whether Cathie Martin, his press secretary, entered his office while both he and Scooter Libby were present and advised both of them that Joe Wilson's wife was employed by the CIA.
  
• Ever discussing Valerie Plame Wilson with Libby prior to the publication of Novak's column.
  
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For an interview conducted around a year after the events in question, the Vice President seems to have forgotten a lot, including one very crucial detail: whether he told Libby about Valerie Plame Wilson.

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1. Smartasses at Mother Jones

Well all right - you try to mount a criminal master plan to launch phony wars, compromise CIA assets, line your pockets, and run a covert torture progam, and we'll see how much you remember about the details of your various nefarious schemes. Dick Cheney made a shitload of money and saved his Halliburton pension, and that's all that counts. See?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. They held meetings about her

but alas Tricky Dicky couldn't remember being in the meetings.

[bleever]

3. K to the R!

Thanks.

[babylonsister]

4. Gonzo learned from the master didn't he. Rec'd. nt

[Hissyspit]

5. kick nt