Newsweek: A Fresh Focus on Cheney-Hand Written notes

cornered rats-get ready to duck.

A Fresh Focus on Cheney
Hand-written notes by the Vice President surface in the Fitzgerald probe.




WEB EXCLUSIVE
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.

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

For either Rove's head or Leopold's ass to arrive on a silver platter before him.

directed at Lord Sith-himself!

Firedoglake has been all over this from the Newsweek source too and in turn it comes from public filings so I know it's legit. And therefore, quite a big deal. After all, what's the whole point of cover-ups and obstruction of justice if not to keep Cheney out of the line of fire?

But, we'll see where it leads...

already is probably why. LOL - It's still a good read though, no matter how much it's posted!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2282434

mer.

They should all be tried for treason, so "George, The Lesser" can't pardon them all.

...but I suspect many of us are afraid to get hopes up. On the other hand, Fitz is reported to be very thorough - if so, odds are that he is working on an indictment for the Shooter (as well as Scooter and Turd Blossom)

I am now a fan.