Like something out of a pulp thriller . . . one of the gang makes a stupid mistake and the rest of them hang him out to dry.
Jason Leopold | White House ‘Discovers’ 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak:
The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office. Senior aides had sent the emails in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed during a federal court hearing Friday.
    The emails are said to be explosive, and may prove that Cheney played an active role in the effort to discredit Plame Wilson’s husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a vocal critic of the Bush administration’s prewar Iraq intelligence, sources close to the investigation said.
    Sources close to the probe said the White House “discovered” the emails two weeks ago and turned them over to Fitzgerald last week. The sources added that the emails could prove that Cheney lied to FBI investigators when he was interviewed about the leak in early 2004. Cheney said that he was unaware of any effort to discredit Wilson or unmask his wife’s undercover status to reporters.
This is one case where the “scare quotes” are all too appropriate.
So what next? Do we see the “President Rice” strategy come to pass? Cheney is removed, replaced by Rice, then Bush exits, and Rice moves into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. And the GOP claims bragging rights for the first African American and first woman as VP or President (not that she would have won enough primaries to make it to the nominating convention, if she had run as a candidate).
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