We all knew this, but it seems the Obama administration wants to keep a lid on it anyway. Why?
"A document filed in federal court this week by the Justice Department offers new evidence that former vice president Richard B. Cheney helped steer the Bush administration's public response to the disclosure of Valerie Plame Wilson's employment by the CIA and that he was at the center of many related administration deliberations.
The administration's discussion of Wilson's link to the CIA was meant to undermine criticism by her husband of administration allegations that Iraq attempted to acquire uranium, a matter that her husband had probed for the CIA, according to testimony presented in a 2007 trial.
A list of at least seven related conversations involving Cheney appears in a new court filing approved by Obama appointees at the Justice Department. In the filing, the officials argue that the substance of what Cheney told special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald in 2004 must remain secret."
I am sure Lizzie Cheney will soon be deployed to defend her daddy's treason. Of course this too is troubling:
"The Obama administration has since agreed that the material should not be disclosed. A Justice Department lawyer at one point last month argued that vice presidents and other White House officials will decline to be interviewed in the future if they know their remarks might "get on 'The Daily Show' " or be used as fodder for political enemies."
And there you have it. Our leadership is afraid that a comedian will make fun of them for holding to account a man who committed treason. Anyone feel like we have entered a whole new, yet unpublished chapter, of 1984? Maybe we should now use 1985 to explain the realm we are now in?
