WaPo: VPs Shadow Hangs Over Trial + Matalin: Wilson Is "A Snake & President Should Wave His Wand"

Vice President's Shadow Hangs Over Trial
Testimony Points Out Cheney's Role in Trying to Dampen Joseph Wilson's Criticism

By R. Jeffrey Smith and Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 4, 2007; Page A05

Vice President Cheney's press officer, Cathie Martin, approached his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on Air Force Two on July 12, 2003, to ask how she should respond to journalists' questions about Joseph C. Wilson IV. Libby looked over one of the reporters' questions and told Martin: "Well, let me go talk to the boss and I'll be back."


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While Cheney and Libby have asserted that their sole intent in contacting journalists was to defend the credibility of their policy, prosecutors disclosed new evidence on Wednesday that the administration was focusing on Wilson himself. Cheney's then-communications director, Mary Matalin, advised Libby in a phone call July 10, prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg said.

Matalin, according to notes Libby made of the conversation, called Wilson "a snake" and warned that his "story has legs," Zeidenberg said. She laid out a plan: "We need to address the Wilson motivation. We need to be able to get the cable out. Declassified. The president should wave his wand."

While arguing unsuccessfully that the jury should see all of Libby's notes on the conversation, Zeidenberg said, "All we have heard from the defense all along is that Mr. Libby was only interested in responding on the merits." He said it was significant that Libby wrote down word for word "an extremely negative and ad hominem attack, if you will, about a critic."

much more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/03/AR2007020301344.html

You can't tell me he didn't know about this. And you can't tell me that someone who loves Democratic values as much as he claims to could continue to love and support someone who encouraged treason.

Sorry, but I don't buy his crap anymore.

Which, being a lady, is not far at all. ;-)

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I just threw up in my mouth a little.

I can't wait until Mary Matalin gets on the stand. The jury is going to despise her.

Cliff notes of what I bolded above: cheney told libby to disclose selected passages from classified reports?!

Is this what Alice felt like when she stepped through the looking glass?

oh the HUMANITY

"On July 6, 2003, 16 months after his return, Wilson publicly accused the administration of ignoring his report, which debunked the Iraq-Niger speculation, and of twisting his information to justify the invasion of Iraq." can be found here:

V Plame didn't suggest her husband for anything, she was asked if he'd be amenable to going.