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- "Playing
Hardball With Secrets." ... "For more than two years,
Senate Republicans have dragged out an investigation into how the Bush
administration came to use bogus intelligence on Iraq to justify a war.
A year ago, [Kansas Republican] Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, called it "a monumental waste of time" to consider whether the
White House manipulated intelligence to exaggerate the threat posed by
Saddam Hussein." ... "Meanwhile, the evidence has steadily mounted that
President Bush and his team not only did that before the war, but kept
right on doing it after the invasion. The most recent additions to this
pile came yesterday, in reports by The New York Sun, The National Journal
and other news organizations on documents from the case against Lewis Libby,
the former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney who is charged with
lying about the unmasking of Valerie Wilson, a covert C.I.A. agent." ...
"According to these papers, Mr. Libby testified that President Bush authorized
him to tell reporters about classified intelligence on Iraq as part of
an effort to discredit Mrs. Wilson's husband, Joseph Wilson, a retired
diplomat who had cast doubt on the claim that Iraq tried to acquire uranium
for nuclear bombs from Niger. The National Journal reported that Mr. Libby
has also said that Mr. Cheney authorized him to leak classified information
before the invasion to make the case for war."
-NYTimes
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- "Bush
Authorized Secrets' Release, Libby Testified: Prosecutor
Says Disclosures on Iraq Were Aimed at War Critic." ... "President Bush
authorized White House official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to disclose highly
sensitive intelligence information to the news media in an attempt to discredit
a CIA adviser whose views undermined the rationale for the invasion of
Iraq, according to a federal prosecutor's account of Libby's testimony
to a grand jury." ... "The court filing by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald
for the first time places Bush and Vice President Cheney at the heart of
what Libby testified was an exceptional and deliberate leak of material
designed to buttress the administration's claim that Iraq was trying to
obtain nuclear weapons. The information was contained in the National Intelligence
Estimate, one of the most closely held CIA analyses of whether Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction before the war." ... "Fitzgerald said Libby's
disclosure took place as the result of "a strong desire by many, including
multiple people in the White House, to repudiate" claims made in a July
2003 newspaper article by former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, who was
hired by the CIA to evaluate whether Iraq sought nuclear material in Niger.
Wilson wrote that "some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons
program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."" ... "Bush has been
a major critic of leaks of classified information, and his aides have repeatedly
said they want to "get to the bottom" of who leaked the name of Wilson's
wife, covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, to the media, which touched off
Fitzgerald's investigation . But in the past 33 months the White House
has never disclosed Bush's apparent involvement in the deliberate disclosure
of information meant to undermine Wilson." (1, 2,
3)
-By R. Jeffrey Smith with contributions by Dafna Linzer,
Walter Pincus and Jim VandeHei and Lucy Shackelford
-WashingtonPost
20051206
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Cheney - Military
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- "Plame
Is Set to Leave the CIA." ... "[Valerie] Plame, 42,
worked undercover for the CIA tracking weapons proliferation but saw her
clandestine career imperiled after she was identified as an agency operative
in the summer of 2003 in a syndicated column by Robert Novak." ... "Plame
is married to Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador, who was sent by
the CIA to Africa in February 2002 to evaluate claims that Saddam Hussein
was trying to buy weapons-grade uranium in Niger. Wilson found the claims
unverifiable and publicly criticized the intelligence used by the administration
to justify the war against Iraq." ... "Administration officials began a
campaign to discredit Wilson and identified Plame in conversations with
several journalists, potentially violating a law against unmasking undercover
agents. A federal grand jury recently indicted former [Vice President Dick]
Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on charges that he repeatedly lied
to investigators." -By Richard B. Schmitt
-LAtimes
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- "Cast
of characters grows in CIA leak drama." ... "It began
with a clumsy forgery, led the president to backtrack on his own State
of the Union address, already has sent one person to jail and has ruined
another's career as a covert operative." ... "Up until three years ago,
Joe and Valerie Wilson looked like just another upscale couple on the Washington
scene, juggling serious jobs while keeping up with 2-year-old twins. He
was a former ambassador turned international business consultant. She was
an analyst for a Boston-based energy company - a working soccer mom, in
the view of one of her neighbors." ... "As it turns out, Valerie really
was a clandestine CIA agent and an expert on weapons of mass destruction,
exactly the threat that Bush held out as the primary justification for
going to war in Iraq. And, as it turns out, Joe's experience as an African
envoy also made him a player." ... "In a way, the whole Wilson saga can
be traced back to Cheney and Bush. It was Cheney's interest in the alleged
Iraq-Niger deal that led the CIA to dispatch Wilson to Africa. And it Bush's
use of the debunked claim in his State of the Union address that led Wilson
to publish his doubts." -By Nancy Benac
-AP via -SeattlePI.NWsource
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- "Soldiers
in Mauritania stage coup." ... "The Mauritanian armed
forces have taken advantage of the absence of the country's president to
seize power, announcing that Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall would be the
nation's new leader, according to a statement released by the state new
agency." ... "The coup occurred when President Maaouya Taya was out of
the country attending the funeral of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. The president
is reportedly now in Niger's capital, Niamey, on his way back from Riyadh."
... "There was no immediate word from Taya, who came to power in a 1984
coup that toppled President Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah." -Contributions
by Elise Labott -CNN
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