Bush and Cheney at the Center of a Leak Campaign
Pete Yost
ABC News
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Washington (US):
Now in its third year, the CIA leak investigation took a decidedly unwelcome turn for the White House last week.
A court filing by prosecutors depicted President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as setting in motion leaks to the press that ended in the disclosure of the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame. The court papers say that in the weeks before Plame's identity was revealed, Bush authorized Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, to leak intelligence from a classified document to rebut a war critic, Joe Wilson.
Wilson, Plame's husband, had accused the administration of twisting prewar intelligence to exaggerate the threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The investigation by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is far from over. Libby's trial on five counts of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI is not scheduled to get under way until January.
Apr 08, 2006
Pete Yost
ABC News
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Washington (US):
Now in its third year, the CIA leak investigation took a decidedly unwelcome turn for the White House last week.
A court filing by prosecutors depicted President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as setting in motion leaks to the press that ended in the disclosure of the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame. The court papers say that in the weeks before Plame's identity was revealed, Bush authorized Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, to leak intelligence from a classified document to rebut a war critic, Joe Wilson.
Wilson, Plame's husband, had accused the administration of twisting prewar intelligence to exaggerate the threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The investigation by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is far from over. Libby's trial on five counts of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI is not scheduled to get under way until January.
Apr 08, 2006
