"Vice President Dick Cheney directed his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on July 12, 2003 to leak to the media portions of a then-highly classified CIA report that Cheney hoped would undermine the credibility of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, according to Libby's grand jury testimony in the CIA leak case and sources who have read the classified report."All signs point to Cheney as being the master puppeteer in this sordid affair.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Cheney Directed Leaks of Classified Info
As reported by Murray Waas in the April 14, 2006 National Journal, Cheney instructed Libby to leak the classified information to the press. And by July 12, Libby was already in his THIRD conversation with Judith Miller regarding Plame's CIA employment.
