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Criminal involvement by Bush.
Notes Implicate Bush in Plame Affair

Cheney's Handwritten Notes Implicate Bush in Plame Affair
By Jason Leopold and Marc Ash
t r u t h o u t | Report

Wednesday 31 January 2007

Copies of handwritten notes by Vice President Dick Cheney,
introduced at trial by attorneys prosecuting former White House
staffer I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, would appear to implicate George W.
Bush in the Plame CIA Leak case.

Bush has long maintained that he was unaware of attacks by any
member of his administration against [former ambassador Joseph]
Wilson. The ex-envoy's stinging rebukes of the administration's use of
pre-war Iraq intelligence led Libby and other White House officials to
leak Wilson's wife's covert CIA status to reporters in July 2003 in an
act of retaliation.

But Cheney's notes, which were introduced into evidence Tuesday
during Libby's perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial, call into
question the truthfulness of President Bush's vehement denials about
his prior knowledge of the attacks against Wilson. The revelation that
Bush may have known all along that there was an effort by members of
his office to discredit the former ambassador raises the question: Was
the president also aware that senior members of his administration
compromised Valerie Plame's undercover role with the CIA?

Further, the highly explicit nature of Cheney's comments not only
hints at a rift between Cheney and Bush over what Cheney felt was the
scapegoating of Libby, but also raises serious questions about
potentially criminal actions by Bush. If Bush did indeed play an
active role in encouraging Libby to take the fall to protect Karl
Rove, as Libby's lawyers articulated in their opening statements, then
that could be viewed as criminal involvement by Bush.

Cont'd:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013107Z.shtml

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