Waxman power: New Questions about Cheney’s Role in CIA Leak.

From Waxman's website:

Chairman Waxman urges Attorney General Mukasey to turn over the FBI interviews of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, citing new information from the FBI interview of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and the recent disclosures by Scott McClellan.

Letter to Attorney General Mukasey

Keep in mind that the FBI interviews that were sent to Waxman were redacted. Waxman is seeking the interviews unredacted. In addition, Bush and Cheney were not under oath and with their attorneys at the time of the FBI interview.

From Thinkprogress:

Emptywheel writes that it seems like "Dick Cheney ordered Scooter Libby to out Valerie Wilson."

Yes, Dick ordered Scooter to get leak Ms. Wilson's covert name. To give you a lot more meat into Cheney's role in the leak case, I wrote an article in Newsinkling.org back in June 2006 called " Dick Cheney: The Co-President." The key to Cheney is the state of mind is his meeting concerning Joe Wilson and the Wilson's Op-Ed in which Cheney was obsessed over. Here is an excerpt of the article:

From Newsinkling.org:

President Bush described his relationship to Cheney as a corporate structure. Bush has considered himself as a CEO and Cheney as a COO (Chief Operating Officer). In March 2003, "Executive Order 13292" gave Cheney the power to "classify" [and declassify] documents".

What is ironic is that on or before March 9, 2003 that Cheney chaired a meeting. The topic of the discussion was to discredit former Ambassador Joe Wilson. It is interesting that Cheney was giving the power to classify documents and yet chaired a meeting to destroy Wilson's reputation.

During March 2003, there was no indication of a risk of National Security at that time. For sure, Cheney took a lead role to strategize a plot to punish Joe Wilson.

In the grand jury testimony by Scooter Libby on March 5, 2004, Fitzgerald asked Libby, "during the time did the Vice-President indicate that he was upset that this article (meaning the Wilson Op-Ed article about his findings in Niger) was out there falsely in his view attacked his own creditability?"

Libby said: "I recall that he (Cheney) was keen to get the truth out. He wanted all of the facts were or were not. He was very keen on that and said it repeatedly: ‘Let's get everything out.' "