{"id":1779,"date":"2007-01-26T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T15:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2007-01-26T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T15:41:19","slug":"ex-aide-says-cheney-led-rebuttal-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Aide Says Cheney Led Rebuttal Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein, <em>Washington Post<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/01\/25\/AR2007012500171_pf.html\">26 January 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vice President Cheney personally orchestrated his office&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\n[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/01\/25\/AR2007012500171_pf.html\">Read the article<\/a> ]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right.  The CIA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinsanity.org\/columns\/20030729.html\">informed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rightweb.irc-online.org\/profile\/1213\">Stephen Hadley<\/a> who forgot to mention the warnings to his partners in crime, Libby and Cheney.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationaljournal.com\/articles\/0703nj1.htm\">And Judy Miller deserves the Pulitzer Prize.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 26 January 2007 Vice President Cheney personally orchestrated his office&#8217;s 2003 efforts to rebut allegations that the administration used flawed intelligence to justify the war in Iraq and discredit a critic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-sH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}