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October 30th,
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Cheney Told FBI He Had No Idea
Who Leaked Plame ID By Pete Yost Associated Press October 30, 2009 Washington - Vice President
Dick Cheney told the FBI that he had no idea who leaked to the news media
that Valerie Plame, wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA. The FBI summary of Cheney's
interview from 2004 reflects that the vice president had deep concern about
Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador in Africa 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 identity to the news
media. The FBI interview summary
was released Friday to a watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington. In the interview whose
participants included federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Cheney told
agents that he did not recall having a conversation about either Plame or her
husband with President George W. Bush. The vice president said he
probably discussed Wilson with Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, but
told the FBI he would not have talked to Rove about Wilson's wife. Cheney's denials that he
talked about Plame are among the few things in the lengthy interview with the
FBI that Cheney appeared certain about. He repeatedly said he could not recall
key events. Among them, he said he did not recall discussing Wilson's wife
with Libby before her CIA employment was publicly revealed by conservative
columnist Robert Novak in mid-July 2003. Evidence at Libby's criminal
trial showed that Cheney had told Libby about Wilson's wife in mid-June 2003. Copyright © 2009 The
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