By Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 26 January 2007
Vice President Cheney personally orchestrated his office’s 2003 efforts to rebut allegations that the administration used flawed intelligence to justify the war in Iraq and discredit a critic who Cheney believed was making him look foolish, according to testimony and evidence yesterday in the criminal trial of his former chief of staff.
Cheney dictated talking points for a White House briefing in the midst of the controversy that summer, his former press aide, Cathie Martin, testified, stressing that the CIA never told Cheney that a CIA-sponsored mission had found no real evidence that Iraq was trying to buy nuclear materials in Africa.
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Right. The CIA informed Stephen Hadley who forgot to mention the warnings to his partners in crime, Libby and Cheney. And Judy Miller deserves the Pulitzer Prize.