The Man With America’s Worst Memory

That would be America’s criminal former Vice President, Dick Cheney.

According to the Associated Press, the man who had ‘other priorities’ when he got about a dozen deferments to avoid military service, and the man who hijacked the Constitution during the Bush Years, simply couldn’t remember even the simplest of details when it came to the outing of Valerie Plame:

On 72 occasions, according to the 28-page FBI summary, Cheney equivocated to the FBI during his lengthy May 2004 interview, saying he could not be certain in his answers to questions about matters large and small in the Plame controversy.

Here are Cheney’s legalistic gymnastics on outing Valerie Plame:

Cheney “cannot recall Scooter Libby telling him how he first heard of Valerie Wilson. It is possible Libby may have learned about Valerie Wilson’s employment from the vice president … but the vice president has no specific recollection of such a conversation.”

Read the entire article. It’s a damn good piece.

Then, head on over to read the entire 28-page FBI summary (pdf file), courtesy of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the watchdog group that forced the release of this document through FOIA. Reading all of the ‘can’t recalls’ reminds me of Alice in Wonderland. Only thing missing are the hallucinogens.

Finally, you can start counting the seconds until the first GOP cult member races over here to proclaim this ‘old news’. No, it’s new news about a criminal coverup at the highest levels of government. A coverup that only FOIA could unearth. A coverup about constitutional mis/malfeasance in the White House. A coverup that the biggest Dick in Washington instigated.