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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former CIA agent whose unmasking led to the conviction of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide lost an appeal on Thursday to declassify parts of her memoir. Valerie Plame Wilson and her publisher Simon & Schuster sued the CIA in 2007 to overturn its efforts to black out the dates she worked for the agency prior to 2002 in her now published memoir "Fair Game." The second circuit federal appeals court ruled on Thursday that the agency had "demonstrated good... Read Full Story
Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way. On 72 occasions, according to the 28-page FBI summary, Cheney equivocated to the FBI during his lengthy May 2004 interview, saying he could not be certain in his answers to questions about matters large and small in... Read Full Story
A newly released transcript of a 2004 FBI interview of former Vice President Dick Cheney shows that he — according to his own words, anyway — had only fuzzy memories of a major incident that was then less than a year old. The transcript is replete with Cheney saying he Òcould not recall,Ó Òcould not specifically rememberÓ or Òhas no recollection.Ó Cheney was interviewed by FBI agents attempting to discover the source of the leak that outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. She is the wife of... Read Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dick Cheney, then U.S. vice president, had harsh words for the CIA sending a spy's husband to Africa to see if Iraq was seeking nuclear material, according to an interview with the FBI released on Friday. Cheney was interviewed in 2004 as part of a probe into who leaked to a newspaper columnist the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, the wife of Joe Wilson who went on the trip to Niger to see if Iraq was trying to buy uranium that could be used for nuclear weapons... Read Full Story
US Senator John Kerry on Monday accused former president George W. Bush's administration of "gross mishandling" of the Afghan war, and of leaving a terrible inheritance to President Barack Obama. "On day one, this administration assumed responsibility for a war heading from strategic drift to a dangerous decline," Bush's rival in the 2004 US presidential election told the Council of Foreign Relations think-tank in Washington. "Now it falls to all of us to get this right. You cannot... Read Full Story
A federal judge ordered the US Justice Department to release significant portions of statements former vice president Dick Cheney made to the FBI about the Valerie Plame case. The judge dismissed objections brought by the previous George W. Bush administration to the release of records about the leak of Plame's name to the media, which compromised her position as a covert CIA officer. The Bush administration had claimed it could withhold the documents because their release could hamper the... Read Full Story
Vice President Dick Cheney told the FBI that he had no idea who leaked the CIA identity of Valerie Plame to the news media. The FBI summary of Cheney's interview from 2004 reflects the deep concern the vice president had about Plame's husband, Bush White House critic Joseph Wilson, who said the administration had twisted prewar intelligence on Iraq. Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was convicted of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI in the probe of who leaked Plame's... Read Full Story
Dick Cheney Slams President Obama For Projecting ‘Weakness’ — The Politico
MCLEAN, Va. — On the eve of the unveiling of the nation’s new Afghanistan policy, former Vice President Dick Cheney slammed President Barack Obama for projecting “weakness” to adversaries and warned that more workaday Afghans will side with the Taliban if they think the United States is heading for the exits.
In a 90-minute interview at his suburban Washington house, Cheney said the president’s “agonizing” about... Read Full Story
Tags: 9/11, Dick Cheney In 2006, Ron Suskind published The One Percent Doctrine, a book about the US war on terrorists after 9/11. The title was drawn from an assessment by then vice-president Dick Cheney, who, in the face of concerns that a Pakistani
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Vice President Dick Cheney talked with top White House officials about how to respond to reporters' inquiries into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative, according to a court filing. Cheney told the FBI about his recollection of discussions with his former top aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and other White House officials on the media's questions. But the Obama administration is fighting in court to keep the substance of what Cheney revealed to the FBI from the public. The FBI... Read Full Story
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