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May 14, 2006

Fitzgerald Looking at Cheney Next?

Could it be that Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has his eye on Vice President Cheney?

The prosecutor in the CIA leak case said more than six months ago that he was not alleging any criminal acts by Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the leak of agency operative Valerie Plame's identity. Today, the prosecutor is leaving the door open to the possibility that the vice president's now-indicted former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, was acting at his boss' behest when Libby allegedly leaked information about Plame to reporters.

It seems Cheney hand wrote notes in the margins of Joe Wilson's New York Times opinion column asking whether Valerie Plame had sent Wilson to Africa. The exact wording of Cheney's notes: "Have they done this sort of thing before? Send an Amb. to assess a question? Do we ordinarily send people out pro bono to work for us? Or did his wife send him on a junket?"

Cheney's notes on the margins of Wilson's opinion column in The New York Times on July 6, 2003, reflect "the contemporaneous reaction of the vice president," Fitzgerald said in the court filing late Friday. ...Cheney's notes "support the proposition that publication of the Wilson op-ed acutely focused the attention of the vice president and the defendant — his chief of staff — on Mr. Wilson, on the assertions made in his article, and on responding to those assertions," according to the file.

Excluse me for my optimism, but if Fitzgerald successfully goes after Cheney and the Democrats take the House, then we might be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Posted by Becky at May 14, 2006 11:30 AM

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