Here is an open thread for your weekend. Sorry for the lateness of the thread, I was literally asleep on the job. 😉
Anyway, you’ve already seen this, but Republican Assemblywoman DeDe Scozzafava has suspended her campaign for the NY-23 seat. The RNC and Newt Gingrich have both endorsed the Hoffman campaign. The Independence Party, which formerly backed Scozzafava, has now endorsed Democrat Bill Owens. This will still be the race to watch next week.
There was also a Friday news document dump that included the notes from Cheney’s interviews with the FBI regarding the Plame matter. Cheney’s testimony is very different than Scooter Libby’s testimony. I guess we now know why Cheney was working so hard to get Libby pardoned – he doesn’t want Libby to testify against him.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney denied in an interview with a special prosecutor investigating the C.I.A. leak case that he had played any role in the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Wilson as an intelligence officer, according to F.B.I. documents released Friday.
Some of the assertions by Mr. Cheney in his interview with the prosecutor on May 8, 2004, appeared to conflict with testimony at the 2007 trial of his chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice and whose sentence was later commuted by President George W. Bush.
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But Mr. Libby, the vice president’s chief of staff at the time, gave a sharply different account of Mr. Cheney’s behavior in July 2003. Mr. Libby offered a detailed account of Mr. Cheney’s role in authorizing the intelligence report to be shared on July 8 with Judith Miller, then a reporter for The New York Times.
He testified under oath in March 2004 that Mr. Cheney had thought it was “very important” to get out the information in the report that Mr. Hussein had tried to acquire uranium, saying “the vice president instructed me to go talk to Judy Miller to lay this out for her.”
Rough times ahead for Darth Cheney?