Fwd: Cheney named as ordering Plame leak

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" Vice President Dick Cheney directed his aide Lewis 'Scooter' Libby to

use classified material to discredit a critic of the Bush

administration's Iraq war effort, the National Journal reported on

Thursday.

 

" Court papers released last week show that Libby was authorized to

disclose classified information to news reporters by " his superiors, "

in an effort to counteract diplomat Joe Wilson's charge that the Bush

administration twisted intelligence on Iraq's nuclear weapons to

justify the 2003 invasion.

 

" The National Journal, a U.S. weekly magazine, citing attorneys

familiar with the matter, reported that Cheney was among those

superiors referred to in a letter from prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald

to Libby's lawyers.

 

" A lawyer for Cheney had no immediate comment. "

 

Full story at: http://news./s/nm/20060210/pl_nm/bush_leak_dc