Cheney's thinking underlined in Exhibit A!

In Exhibit A of the filings by Fitzgerald, there is the Op-Ed piece by Wilson with handwritten notations by Cheney at the top. The media has focused on the notations at the top, rightly so as they are the focus of the Fitzgerald investigation and part of the evidence against Libby, yet the portions Cheney underlined WITHIN the article itself makes fascinating reading, both in indicating what concerned him and what he did or did not do about those concerns based on his notations at the top.

Disclaimer: I am simply positing my take on his underlinings, feel free to tear away at my speculation!

Here is the link to the pdf of Exhibit A:

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/files/Libby_060512_Fitz_Nwspprs_Ex.pdf

Click on 0002, rotate and then zoom in so you can read the article, especially the underlined parts.

Here is one of the underlinings that caught my eye:

...the "ambassador told me that she knew about the allegations of uranium sales to Iraq - and that she felt she had already debunked them in her reports to Washington." Nevertheless...

The words enclosed in quotation marks (by me) are the words underlined by Cheney. Why would Cheney underline them yet not question the content of that underlined part when he was posing questions at the top of the article? Certainly, imo, if an ambassador is saying she had already debunked the uranium claim and you underlined that portion, would you not also want to question that aspect, find out more yet only questions about Fitz are the ones he wrote on top. Interesting to say the least, imo.

Here is another one:

"Though I did not file a written report" there should be at least four documents in the United States archives confirming my mission.

It is interesting to me that Cheney only underlined the written report portion and nothing more from that sentence. I speculate Cheney was highlighting a point by which his minions could counter Wilson.

This one, too, piqued my interest, remember only the portion that is enclosed in quotation marks is the part underlined by Cheney:

..."and a specific answer from the agency to the office of the Vice President (this may have been delivered orally). While I have not seen any of these reports,"

Now, here is the whole portion from which Cheney only underlined part:

The documents should include the ambassador's report of my debriefing in Niamey, a separate report written by the embassy staff, a CIA report summing up my trip, and a specific answer from the agency to the office of the Vice President (this may have been delivered orally.) While I have not seen any of these reports, I have spent enough time in government to know that this is standard operating procedure.


Now, if one were to believe that the bush cabal was not already FULLY aware of the falseness of the Niger yellowcake story, you would think Cheney would have been interested in the other reports mentioned by Wilson yet only the VP part is underlined.

There are other underlined parts that may interest others, if so I hope they are posted as well.

I read the article from your other post. I think it does give us an interesting insight into what Cheney thinks is important in this editorial. It does seem to be the key fact that the evidence was bullshit. Odd.

seen as evidence because it can be proven they are in Cheney's handwriting whereas they cannot prove who underscored the portions within the article but they certainly, to me, buttress the point Fitzgerald is making in that the focus of Cheney, Libby, etc, was to counter the article as opposed to checking the reports Wilson wrote about in the article which strongly pointed to previous debunking of the yellow cake story.