Perhaps the most amusing aspect of Hayes’ retelling of the Plame story in his biography on Cheney is his description of the events of fall 2003.
Before I explain it, I should note that Hayes has a problem with time. He frequently alters the chronology of events so he can screw with the causality.
In this post I trace the tangled web in which Tom Davis is investigating Scott Bloch (head of the Office of Special Counsel) at the same time as Bloch may be investigating Tom Davis. The short logic goes like this:Tom Davis is investigating Scott Bloch (and collecting all Bloch emails that refer to any legislator)The WaPo story on Sunday looks like it was based primarily on leaks from OSCIt included details
Several people noted the announcement that DOD was shutting down the TALON database, wondering if the database was just going to be renamed down the line, as TIA seems to have morphed. Apparently they missed this detail:
It will be closed on Sept. 17 and information collected subsequently on potential terror or security threats to Defense Departmentfacilities or personnel will be sent by Pentagon officials to an FBIdatabase known as Guardian, according
I laid out earlier all the details that Stephen Hayes suppressed for his hagiography of Dick Cheney. There are two areas in which his propaganda tract is useful, the second of which I’ll deal with in a later post.
Declassifying the Trip Report
The first is a consistent theme Hayes uses for his tale about OVP’s involvement in the Plame leak.
Marty Lederman notes that Cheney’s latest dodge includes a reference to the ruling that limits Congress’ oversight over the Executive strictly to those areas where it pertains to legislation. From that, he argues that Cheney’s response was premised on the belief that FISA itself is an illegal restriction on the Executive.
Finally, the letter lists numerous reasons whythe VP’s office might not release the requested documents.
At least that’s what I infer from the comments of the lawyer from the public defender’s nonprofit that will now take on Wilkes’ defense in one of two cases (thanks to chrisc for sending this on) he has been charged on.
A lawyer from Federal Defenders of San Diego Inc., a nonprofit thatrepresents indigent people accused of federal crimes, will representWilkes in the criminal case with co-defendant Kyle “Dusty†Foggo, theformer third-highest-ranking
I confess. I peeked ahead.
Today, we’re going to play a little quiz game. If you had to pick the parts of the CIA Leak story that Cheney’s hand-picked propagando-biographer would leave out, thereby leaving a picture that Dick Cheney was not centrally involved in the leak, what would you leave out?
The answers are after the jump.
Hayes left out:The notes Cheney made on Wilson’s op-ed, including the question “Or did his wife
It appears that Dan Eggen has gotten a copy of the letter from Dick’s office, detailing which documents he has that respond to FISA subpoenas. Among other things, Eggen’s report appears to suggest that the warrantless wiretap program operated illegally for 9 days (and possibly as many as 22 days) before it was amended to satisfy DOJ; previously, we had only know it had operated illegally for one day.
Here’re the
From TPMM, though no details about why or when:
Bradley Schlozman, a former Justice Departmentofficial who was at the center of the U.S. attorneys scandal and isunder investigation by the Departments inspector general for hisalleged efforts to politicize the Civil Rights Division, has finallyleft his post at the Department.
And while we’re counting people leaving DOJ, one of the good guys is leaving, too:
DLA Piper US LLP today announced that Peter Zeidenberg, a
As ThinkProgress reports, the Senate Judiciary Committee was about to issue subpoenas on the warrantless wiretapping program. And then Cheney told Specter no. And Specter did what Cheney told him to do. Lesson number 383,947 in why Specter is the most pathetic piece of haggis in the Senate.
In fact, we were about to issue subpoenas then and one of thesenators came to our meeting and said that the vice president had
