Documents Increasingly Substantiate Role of VP In Attacking Wilson

Cheney Authorized Leak Of CIA Report Libby Says, by Murray Waas, National Journal:

  • “Vice President Dick Cheney directed his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, on July 12, 2003 to leak to the media portions of a then-highly classified CIA report that Cheney hoped would undermine the credibility of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy, according to Libby’s grand jury testimony in the CIA leak case and sources who have read the classified report.”
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