Dick and the Drip, Drip, Drip
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Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief
of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were personally informed in June
2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam
Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation of Niger, according
to government records and interviews with current and former officials. The
new CIA assessment came just as Libby and other senior administration officials
were embarking on an effort to discredit an administration critic who had also
been saying that the allegations were untrue. … … … … The disclosure
that Cheney and Libby were told of a CIA assessment that the agency considered
the Niger allegations to be untrue, and that Tenet requested the assessment
as a result of the personal interest of Cheney and Libby, would "demonstrate
even further that Niger was a central issue for Libby," said Gillers, and
would "make it even harder, although not impossible, to claim a faulty
memory." Murray
Waas
Even after Dick Cheney and Libby found out that Saddam never tried
to get uranium from Niger, they kept after Wilson and his wife. Why? What was
there to gain? Maybe it was never about the uranium from Niger and all about
going after a critic of the Administration. After all, you don't question George
W. Bush without hearing it from his henchmen. This story also throws new light
on Libby's lying ways. It's all coming out, drip by delicious drip.
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