Nail Meet Coffin

What did Bush know and when did he know it? It's the last piece of the leak puzzle and if this article by Jason Leopold from t r u t h o u t holds up, the missing link has been, well, leaked.

In early June 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney met with President Bush and told him that CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was the wife of Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson and that she was responsible for sending him on a fact-finding mission to Niger to check out reports about Iraq's attempt to purchase uranium from the African country, according to current and former White House officials and attorneys close to the investigation to determine who revealed Plame-Wilson's undercover status to the media.
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The revelation puts a new wrinkle into Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's two-year-old criminal probe into the leak and suggests for the first time that President Bush knew from early on that the vice president and senior officials on his staff were involved in a coordinated effort to attack Wilson's credibility by leaking his wife's classified CIA status.

And not only did Bush know, he lied to investigators about it.

According to four attorneys who last week read a transcript of President Bush's interview with investigators, Bush did not disclose to the special counsel that he was aware of any campaign to discredit Wilson. Bush also said he did not know who, if anyone, in the White House had retaliated against the former ambassador by leaking his wife's undercover identity to reporters.

I would like to see the president "heh, heh" his way out of this one. He has lied to investigators and he has lied to the American people. Soon it's going to get increasingly difficult for the White House to continue its declassifier-in-chief only defense. The dots are being connected and all roads lead to the Oval Office.

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