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In 2004 then-Vice President Dick Cheney told the FBI that he had no idea who leaked to the news media that Valerie Plame was a CIA Agent. At the time Cheney had "deep concern" about Plame's husband Joseph Wilson. Wilson was a former U.S. Ambassador that claimed the Bush administration had twisted intelligence prior to the invasion of Iraq. Ultimately Cheney's chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in a probe of the leak by the FBI. At the end of the trial prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said there was "a cloud over the vice president".
On Friday the FBI released a 28-page interview summary to a group called, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The group had sued to get the material under the Freedom of Information Act. In the interview, the vice president's "memory seemed hazy". That the identity of Valerie Plame-Wilson and her place of employment were not high on the priority of Cheney's "radar screen". The CIA and her relationship to Wilson "did not figure prominently in his thinking". According to courtroom testimony, Rove and Scooter Libby were the sources for a Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper and Rove was the source for the late conservative columnist Robert Novak. The vice president said he probably discussed Wilson with Bush's top adviser, Karl Rove, but he told the FBI that he would not have talked to Rove about Plame. The mystery of who said what to who has been revealed. The information has now been released for public consumption and independent review. "In-depth" investigations by news writers and columnists can now commence. The critics and crucifiers are ready with pitch forks and torches in hand.
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