Cheney has documents indicating Sadaam is buying yellow cake uranium from Niger forged and produced through the Italian Intelligence Service SISMI.

Again speculation that Cheney has the document forged, but it does not seem like much of a stretch considering that is is EXACTLY what Cheney needs.

Joe Wilson goes to Niger and finds out it is not true.

Bush, in spite of CIA warnings, uses the Cheney "16 words" talking point in the State of the Union speech.

Joe Wilson writes an editorial in the NYT calling BS.

Cheney, enraged and seeking revenge, outs undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame through Scooter Libby and others.

This compromises Brewster Jenninngs, a vital CIA nuclear anti-proliferation covert operation, putting American intelligence operatives and all of their allies and contacts in mortal danger.

Washington Post

The inadvertent disclosure of the name of a business affiliated with the CIA underscores the potential damage to the agency and its operatives caused by the leak of Plame's identity. Intelligence officials have said that once Plame's job as an undercover operative was revealed, other agency secrets could be unraveled and her sources might be compromised or endangered.

Larry Johnson - a former CIA and State Department official who was a 1985 classmate of Plame's in the CIA's case officer-training program at Camp Peary, Va., known as "the Farm" - predicted that when the CIA's internal damage assessment is finished, "at the end of the day, (the harm) will be huge and some people potentially may have lost their lives."

Patrick Fitzgerald investigates the leak. Cheney and Libby et al lie and obfuscate and stonewall and throw sand in his eyes, effectively obstructing a federal investigation.....and Justice.

At his trial, Scooter initially is going to call Cheney in his defense, his lawyer says he does not intend to be the fall guy. And then suddenly he decides NOT to call Cheney or Rove. Obviously a deal has been cut.

Scooter is found guilty of perjury and obstructing justice. Patently and effectively shielding Cheney from any consequences. Cheney's puppet Bush at Cheney's insistence, commutes Scooter's sentence. Thus guaranteeing all the bodies stay safely buried.

By commuting rather than pardoning, he ensures that Scooter can still plead the Fifth, further ensuring justice is thwarted.

It would do no good to call Scooter Libby. His silence has been bought and paid for," Leahy said, referring to Bush’s commutation, "and he would just take the fifth."

Dick Cheney successfully obstructs justice.

And gets away with outing an entire American Intelligence network in a time of war.

This is clearly treason.

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