22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Recall About the Plame Case

By Nick Baumann | Fri October 30, 2009
MotherJones blog

Notes from former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with the FBI about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released on Friday afternoon after a lengthy legal battle. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued the Justice Department last year to obtain the interview notes; a judge finally ordered their release on October 1. In the interview, Cheney demonstrated a behavior common among Bush administration officials under investigation: he couldn't remember much of anything. Here's a non-comprehensive list of 22 things Dick Cheney claimed he couldn't recall about the Plame case, in the order they appear in the FBI's notes:

* Whether the Wilson trip was discussed during any of the visits he made to the CIA with his Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby.
* Any reaction he had to Nicholas Kristof's New York Times' article about the Wilson visit at the time the article was published.
* Whether he discussed the Wilson situation with George Tenet at their meeting on June 10, 2003.

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