John Dean: Fitzgerald has sights on Cheney

Take with a grain of salt. This is analysis, not news. :popcorn:


http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20051104.html

A Cheney-Libby Conspiracy, Or Worse? Reading Between the Lines of the Libby Indictment
By JOHN W. DEAN
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Friday, Nov. 04, 2005

In my last column, I tried to deflate expectations a bit about the likely consequences of the work of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald; to bring them down to the realistic level at which he was likely to proceed. I warned, for instance, that there might not be any indictments, and Fitzgerald might close up shop as the last days of the grand jury's term elapsed. And I was certain he would only indict if he had a patently clear case.

Now, however, one indictment has been issued -- naming Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby as the defendant, and charging false statements, perjury and obstruction of justice. If the indictment is to be believed, the case against Libby is, indeed, a clear one.



Having read the indictment against Libby, I am inclined to believe more will be issued. In fact, I will be stunned if no one else is indicted.

Indeed, when one studies the indictment, and carefully reads the transcript of the press conference, it appears Libby's saga may be only Act Two in a three-act play. And in my view, the person who should be tossing and turning at night, in anticipation of the last act, is the Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney.

of Watergate fame? Guess he should know, huh?

I will always be thankful to him for opening my eyes to exactly what this cabal was all about.

His book was a big turning point for me!

I put my $$ on Dean, with this one:bounce:

snippit:

The Libby indictment asserts that "n or about June 12, 2003 Libby was advised by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Division. Libby understood that the Vice President had learned this information from the CIA."

In short, Cheney provided the classified information to Libby - who then told the press. Anyone who works in national security matters knows that the Counterproliferation Division is part of the Directorate of Operations -- the covert side of the CIA, where most everything and everyone are classified.

November 04, 2005

Who is Mr. X and what did he know? That is, which administration official was the first source who told Bob Novak that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA operative, and what did this source tell Novak about Valerie Wilson? Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald must know the answers to this question; otherwise Novak would be sitting in the slammer (as Judith Miller did for 85 days). But since this information is not critical to the question of whether Scooter Libby lied to FBI agents and grand jurors about how he had learned of Valerie Wilson's employment at the CIA, it was not included in the Libby indictment. But as I noted a few days ago, Fitzgerald placed a rather tantalizing fact in the indictment; he reported that on June 12, 2003--weeks before Joseph Wilson published his now-infamous New York Times op-ed about his trip to Niger--Dick Cheney told Libby that "Wilson's wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Division." That was significant because the Counterproliferation Division is part of the operations directorate--aka the DO--which is the clandestine service of the CIA. This meant that Cheney and Libby had reason to believe--or at least suspect--that Valerie Wilson was an undercover employee of the CIA.

After I wrote about this small slice of the indictment (which Fitzgerald presented with no elaboration) a sharp-eyed reader emailed to point out an interesting line in a column that Novak published on October 1, 2003. Writing about his original article that included the Plame/CIA leak, he reported,

During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife.

http://www.bushlies.com/

counterproliferation that's why Libby wanted her shut up. It will all 'come out in the wash"

oh no .... :rofl: :popcorn:


he is so warm & lovable

They've raped the treasury...if they step down I'll call it even. Lesson learned.

:tinfoilhat: cheney bought a house on Chesapeake Bay (Md)
about 30 miles from DC last august (as Katrina was flooding NO)
I really expect him to be in that house soon.

And if this gang of crooks & thugs try to keep power he will do his
shit from there.

He doen't have the whole truth. But maybe the conviction of Libby will lead to that (and supposedly more indictments).

And most Americans are looking over his shoulder.