Reply #53: Eureka! "Cheney Authorized Leak Of CIA Report, Libby Says"

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By Murray Waas, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Friday, April 14, 2006
http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/0414nj3.htm

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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(o)n July 12, 2003, the same day that Libby spoke to both Cooper and Miller, Libby and Cheney traveled aboard Air Force Two for the dedication of a new aircraft carrier in Norfolk, Va. During the flight either to or from Norfolk, Cheney, Libby, and Cathie Martin, then-assistant to the vice president for public affairs, discussed how they might rebut Wilson's charges and discredit him, according to federal court records, and interviews with people with first-hand knowledge of accounts that all three provided to federal investigators.

The reemergence of Cathie Martin can point to only one thing - Fitz has Cheney in the cross-hairs.