Notes [redacted] of Cheney's FBI interview revealed.

Obama the administration did not appeal the court’s order.

CREW:

Click here to read the interview transcript, and read leak investigation notes here and here.

And here are some highlights:

1. Cheney wanted former WH secretary McClellan to exonerate Libby as well as Rove. From TPM:

The Vice President was not happy about it, as it appeared that the White House press office was putting down markers for some individuals and not for others. Specifically, Vice President Cheney believed that fairness dictated that similar disqualifying statements should be made to the media on behalf of Libby and Elliot Abrams of the NSC, both of whom were the speculative targets of leak allegations by the media that week.

In other words, Cheney wanted Libby and Abrams exonerated in addition to Rove.

2. Cheney can't recall key details in Plame matter:

For example, the FBI agent writes, in reference to Wilson's famed New York Times op-ed:

The vice president is relatively certain that he spoke to someone about the article but he cannot remember exactly who it was.

3. Cheney’s expansion of executive privilege. From the FBI doc:

When asked if he ever advised Libby that the president had decided to declassify the NIE, the vice president declined to answer in view of his concerns about sharing potentially privileged conversations between himself and the President. it was clarified for the Vice President that he was not being asked to comment on the substance of his conversations with the President, but rather, only whether he'd ever told Libby that he'd had such a discussion with the President. In response, Vice President Cheney repeated his assertion that he must refrain from commenting to the investigators about any private and/or privileged conversations he may have had with the President.

In other words, not only could Cheney not talk about any conversations with the president -- even to FBI. And he couldn't even talk about any conversations with an aide, meaning Libby, about conversations with the president.

Also: Cheney "advised that he has no idea" who leaked Plame's name to Bob Novak.

Remember Cheney's handwritten notes on Wilson's Op-Ed [see pic above] where he wrote "Or did his wife send him on a junket?"