Valerie Plame was Covert CIA, Cheney impeachment begins


	Valerie Plame was Covert CIA, Cheney impeachment begins

BobbyRutan

5-30-2007 2:29 AM

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cia, libbey, cheney, bush, iraq, war, politics, terror, republican

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Froomkin adds that in response to charges that Libby's prosecution was unwarranted, "the special counsel evidently felt obliged to put Libby's crime in context. And that context is Dick Cheney."

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