On Monday, Joseph Wilson, the former Clinton administrator ambassador and husband of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson who traveled to Niger in 2002 to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein had sought to acquire uranium, called on Cheney to apply the same standard of transparency to himself.
“Cheney’s request for the declassification of material is a welcome development, but it should not be limited to his narrow request,” Wilson wrote on the weblog The Daily Beast. “Our country’s understanding of what was done in our name by the Bush administration depends on the release, not just of the documents Cheney has designated, but of all documents related to the efforts of the Bush administration and Cheney himself to defend the indefensible—the decision to invade Iraq despite the knowledge at the time that Iraq did not have a nuclear program, had no ties to al Qaeda, and posed no existential threat to the United States or to its friends and allies in the region.”
Specifically, Wilson called on the ex-VP to make public his testimony in the case of his wife’s outing as a CIA officer.
“Among other documents Cheney should release is his testimony to Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald about the role he played in the treasonous leak of the identity of a covert CIA officer,” Wilson wrote. “His chief of staff, I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, was convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury for his efforts to ensure that the ‘cloud over the vice president,’ as Fitzgerald noted, was not penetrated.”
“As a witness in the Libby case, Cheney has the legal grounds to release his own testimony,” Wilson continued. “If he feels more comfortable, he can ask permission, though he does not need it, from former President George W. Bush—and ask that Bush release his testimony as well. Because Cheney has called for transparency, why should he or Bush object? Then Pat Fitzgerald can make public the transcripts. It’s time for this coverup to end.”
And since Big Dick Cheney is yearning transparency, why not release the Enron Energy Task force memos?
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Fear has brought Darth Cheney out of his cave and rightly so. The walls are closing in and Darth see's no way out. He's lost his power and quickly losing team players. We have to remember Cheney reacted the 4th Branch of Govenment to enact his Evil Plan. 2/3's of the CIA Agents resigned after the Plame leak in fear they would be next. Now with memos and information being declassified they can speak out. Cheney has Cow Gas John Boehner mading demands for transparentcy but only that which makes the GOP look good, the corrupt/illegal information he wants kept secret. Cheney will go down because of the stupidity of his GOP wingnuts. Darth learned well from Nixon but he has one problem this time that will do him in. Cheney has wingnuts as is posse like Boehner, Bachmann, Cantor, McCain and others who have been sniffing the Cow gas. It's becoming clear every day why the GOP go so upset when Obama picked Emanuel, fear was in their voices and on their faces. Now even Dennis Hastert has come out of his hole as things are getting hot for him too. What the movie folks it gets much better as days go by.
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