Libby told Grand Jury Cheney spoke of Plame

[pepperbear]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/24/AR2006052402597.html

Vice President Cheney was personally angered by a former U.S. ambassador's newspaper column attacking a key rationale for the war in Iraq and repeatedly directed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, then his chief of staff, to "get all the facts out" related to the critique, according to excerpts from Libby's 2004 grand jury testimony released late yesterday by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

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forgive if a dupe, but I hadn't seen this in GD or LBN...

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[rodeodance]

1. cheney uses a penknife to cut out Plane-related articles.

...Fitzgerald, in contrast, has sought to build a case that Libby was preoccupied with the task of rebutting Wilson's July 2003 column, which accused the White House of twisting intelligence to support its invasion of Iraq -- and that this preoccupation stemmed from Cheney's intense focus on Wilson's assertions. While yesterday's filing largely concerned a side issue -- whether Libby's attorneys are entitled to see more government documents -- it provided the first detailed look at what Libby told investigators about his interactions with Cheney on this issue.

According to the excerpts from testimony on March 5, 2004, Libby recalled that he and Cheney discussed Wilson's article on multiple occasions each day after it appeared. Cheney, Libby said, "often will cut out from a newspaper an article using a little penknife that he has" and "look at it, think about it."

That's what Cheney did with the column, Libby said, because Cheney saw it as attacking his credibility. "He wanted to get all the facts out about what he had or hadn't done, what the facts were or were not. He was very keen about that and said it repeatedly. Let's get everything out," Libby testified.

A previous court filing by Fitzgerald revealed that Cheney had annotated his copy of the column with this question about Wilson: "Did his wife send him on a junket?" Cheney's defense lawyers said in a subsequent filing that Libby had testified he never saw those annotations until the FBI showed him a copy. In Libby's actual testimony, as released by Fitzgerald, he said, "It's possible if it was sitting on his desk that, you know, my eye went across it."

[flyarm]

2. THIS IS TREASON!! ALDRICH AMES AND ROBERT HANSEN

are in prison for life for doing this ...and they did it not during war..and they did not take us to war committing their treason!

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[AngryAmish]

3. Hasn't Rove been indicted?

[Snivi Yllom]

4. Libby is in deep doo doo

deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep doo doo

also related:

Prosecutors say silence in CIA leak case may signal Rove indictment coming
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1280032&mesg_id=1280032

[FreakinDJ]

5. Libby better not go hunting with "Shooter Dick"

He'll leave the 28ga. at home and bring his 12ga. for that trip