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To: geode00 who wrote (222710)	3/6/2007 5:10:07 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Chris Matthews reacts to Libby verdict Posted: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:22 PM by Hardball hardblogger.msnbc.msn.com Why were Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff Scooter Libby so intent on avoiding responsibility for Joseph Wilson’s 2002 trip to Africa? The trial heard sworn testimony from several witnesses that it was the Vice President’s inquiry that triggered the CIA trip. So, in the words of prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, what was all the “hullabaloo” when Joe Wilson wrote in the New York Times that it was “the vice president’s office” that had raised the question with the CIA of a possible Saddam Hussein effort to buy uranium from Niger? Why did Cheney and Libby want everybody to think it wasn’t the vice president?” Why did Cheney’s chief of staff call and complain so fatefully when Wilson’s claims were repeated on “Hardball?” Could it be that Cheney feared that if the country knew it was his inquiry that led to the Africa trip then he, the president’s right-hand man, could be expected to have gotten a full report on the trip’s findings. In that case, Cheney would have known a year ahead of time that there was no deal by Saddam Hussein to buy uranium yellowcake in Niger. He should therefore have kept the president from making that assertion in his 2003 State of the Union that “British intelligence” reported a Saddam effort to buy uranium from Africa. That assertion of a nuclear threat from Iraq is what tilted this country toward war. I asked George Tennet, the CIA director, to explain why the vice president never got a report on a CIA fact-finding trip that was triggered by his inquiry. Tennet’s reply was “Ask him!”

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