Cheney Shooting Accident Scoots Over CIA leak Issue
Washington, DC - Today, Associated Press political reporter RonFournier writes that while the Vice President's shooting accident has dominated the headlines the past few days, the real scandal that has Republicans ducking for cover is the Vice President's involvement indisclosing classified national security information for political gainin a time of war.
See below for an excerpt from the article:Cheney mishap takes focus off CIA leak By Ron Fournier Associated Press
It's not Dick Cheney's hunting mishap that worries Republicans. It's his other scandal -- the CIA leak case and the threat it poses to the embattled vice president. ...Republicans say they are pleasantly surprised that the intense media coverage of the hunting accident has shifted attention from the case of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff. Libby is accused of misleading investigators about who leaked the identify of aCIA official. In documents released two weeks ago, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said he understood that Libby's superiors authorized him to disclose to the media details of a secret report that is central to the investigation. What does Cheney know? "It's nothing I can talk about,"he said in a television interview Wednesday. "I may well be called as awitness at some point in the case and it's, therefore, inappropriate for me to comment on any facet of the case."That's the scandal to watch, Republicans said.To read this entire article, please click here
1 comment:
It's too bad this incident is
busy 'entertaining' americans
rather than waking them up to
the fact that Cheney directed
the Secret Service to obfuscate
the police investigation.
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