{"id":2874,"date":"2006-05-25T07:26:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T11:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2006-06-14T23:23:59","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T06:23:59","slug":"video-fitzgerald-targets-cheney-as-cia-leak-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Fitzgerald Targets Cheney as CIA Leak Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by <b><a href=\"mailto:david@edwardsdavid.com\" target=\"_blank\">David Edwards<\/a><\/b> of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/veredictum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Veredictum.com<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edwardsdavid.com\/media\/nbc\/images\/nbc_today_leakgate_cheney_witness_060525a1.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/FlvPlayer.html?file=http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/nbc\/nbc_today_leakgate_cheney_witness_060525a_320x240.flv&#038;width=320&#038;height=240&#038;OrigWidth=320&#038;OrigHeight=240\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/bb_play_video-a.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/FlvPlayer.html?file=http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/nbc\/nbc_today_leakgate_cheney_witness_060525a_320x240.flv&#038;width=320&#038;height=240&#038;OrigWidth=320&#038;OrigHeight=240\">Video in Streaming Flash format&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/nbc\/nbc_today_leakgate_cheney_witness_060525a_320x240.wmv\">Video in Windows Media format&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Special Prosecutor investigating the outing of CIA officer, Valerie Plame-Wilson, has indicated in a court filing that Vice President Cheney is likely to be a witness in the Libby trial.<\/p>\n<p><i>The New York Times<\/i> quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/25\/washington\/25cheney.html\">Fitzgerald writing<\/a>, &#8220;Contrary to defendant&#8217;s assertion, <b>the government has not represented that it does not intend to call the vice president<\/b> as a witness at trial.&#8221; (see: <a href=\"\"><i>Muckraker<\/i><\/a>). Cheney&#8217;s testimony is expected to reflect the state of mind in the Office of the Vice President during the organized attack on Joe Wilson&#8217;s credibility and the outing of Plame-Wilson. The testimony will likely show that Libby had motive to leak selective information to reporters to smear Wilson and bolster the Administration&#8217;s justification for war on Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Fingering Cheney as a possible witness may lead to questions about a <strike>conspiracy<\/strike> secret illegal scheme planned and executed within the Vice President&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by David Edwards of Veredictum.com Video in Streaming Flash format&#8230; Video in Windows Media format&#8230; The Special Prosecutor investigating the outing of CIA officer, Valerie Plame-Wilson, has indicated in a court filing that Vice President Cheney is likely to be a witness in the Libby trial. The New York Times quotes Fitzgerald writing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,56,57],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cia","category-karl-rove","category-scooter-libby","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}