Report: Some Bush officials suspected Libby went to jail to cover-up for Cheney

Source: The Raw Story

Buried near the end of a bizarre Time article which compares Obama administration debates about whether to probe torture allegations with President Bush’s struggle to decide whether or not to pardon a former aide who obstructed a leak investigation are two paragraphs which reveal something new about L ‘affaire Plame.

Valerie Plame first became a household name when her identity was disclosed by conservative columnist Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. The column came only a week after her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, had written an op-ed for the New York Times asserting that White House officials twisted pre-war intelligence on Iraq. Her outing was seen as political retaliation for Wilson’s criticism of the Administration’s claim that Iraq sought uranium from Niger for a nuclear weapons program.

But now it turns out that it wasn’t just liberal bloggers and left-leaning Democrats that suspected former vice president Dick Cheney had engaged in a cover-up. According to Time, there were apparently some empty tin foil containers in the wastebaskets of the West Wing, as well.

A former Bush aide even tells the magazine that deep down, the president himself probably suspected Libby went to jail to cover-up for Cheney.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/23/report-some-bush-officials/

Which is probably why Cheney was so torqued when Bush didn't pardon him. I think Bush was smarter than Cheney, however. A pardon means Libby would have been compelled to testify if any further actions take place down the road as he can still claim the fifth and the pardon would have eliminated that.

Not to future Presidents - seek out people with 5 letter last names starting with L, with double consonants, and ending in y when seeking out loyal personal lackeys and henchmen.

I didn't remember that.

Bush's gave Scooter Libby a get out of jail free card (but the charges stand). The idiot Liddy did go to jail for Watergate and has been railing on the radio for too many years.

They are ALL crooks however! :rofl:

I really need to read slower so I see every letter in a word.

They are almost interchangeable as far as I'm concerned. Like a father and son. :rofl:

Don't need to say anymore than that for the American people to know how corrupt they are...

:applause:

Perhaps the headline should read he was prepared to go to jail to cover up for Cheney. Even then, that's stretching the truth.

Really?:crazy:

WTC, that may have been the beginning of * epiphany. (Sorry, * & epiphany is an oxymoron). Also gives credence to the phrase absolute power corrupts. Looks like * had the last laugh not handing out blanket pardons. I hope what I read a while back about * made a deal is true. And Obama has given further SS watch on Cheney.

The MSM is disgusting. All these years later and it's suddenly "Oh my word... Bush "suspected" that Darth Cheney was involved - we're shocked, I tell you... shocked! Why didn't we see this before?!" Gimme a break. The entire Administration was in on it and everyone in Washington knew it.

you are putting me on .

Update: Cheney defends Libby, blames Armitage for Plame leak

Former Vice President Cheney, responding to the Time article said the following in a media advisory Thursday afternoon:

“Scooter Libby is an innocent man who was the victim of a severe miscarriage of justice. He was not the source of the leak of Valerie Plame’s name. Former Deputy Secretary of State, Rich Armitage, leaked the name and hid that fact from most of his colleagues, including the President. Mr. Libby is an honorable man and a faithful public servant who served the President, the Vice President and the nation with distinction for many years. He deserved a presidential pardon.”

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/23/report-some-bush-officials/

Right. That's all there was to it. Nothing to do with Marc Grossman, nothing to do with Karl Rove, and most certainly nothing to do with you, right Dick?!

Bush, either out of spite or because he'd been lied to, refused to pardon Cheney's minion. And the Dark Lord knows in his shriveled pit of a heart that Scooter's fate, that "severe miscarriage of justice", is on his head.

Libby and Cheney and company conspired to ruin an anti-nuclear propagation program of the CIA, expose agents and then perjure. And Cheney is upset that Libby only gets a commutation? Bullshit. Its as good or better than a pardon. Meanwhile there are thousands of innocent people in prisons in this country and Cheney has never raised a finger for one of them.

Well, we all knew that Dubya didn't pick the brightest bulbs in the sockets to staff his 'administration.'