Cheney Did It

Friday, 28 October 2005
As Josh Marshall points out, it's plain as day, it's in the indictment: Cheney told Libby that Plame was an operative -- in the highly sensitive Counterproliferation Division -- and not the simple desk jockey "analyst" of right-wing fantasy. Marshall nails it: "Libby's a long-time national security hand. He knows exactly what CPD is and where it is. So does Cheney. They both knew."

Cheney, says the indictment, got Plame's particulars directly from the CIA. So there you have it. Cheney got the goods; he gave them to Libby, who, as we've been told for years in fawning profiles, is Cheney's strong right arm, his "Karl Rove," an aide mind-melded with his boss. Libby knew exactly what to do with this information: days later, he was doling it out to his pet reporters. And all of this occurred in the context of a now-confirmed White House effort to discredit Joe Wilson.

So now we know for sure. There was a leak revealing the identity of secret CIA operative working to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction. And the source of this high-treasonous leak was the Vice President of the United States, Richard Cheney. (Or should we just call him, Judy Miller-style, "a former Nixon White House aide"?) It is highly doubtful that Cheney will ever be punished for this crime -- but at least we know. At least this one little fragment of the truth has emerged from the slag-heap of Bushist lies.

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