Cheney FBI interview: 72 times of can’t recall
WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that “there is a cloud over the vice president.” Last week’s release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney’s answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.
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.
...Eight months earlier, Libby had gone to Cheney, telling the vice president that “I have a note saying that I had heard about” Plame’s CIA identity “from you,” according to Libby’s grand jury testimony.
And what did Cheney say in response? Fitzgerald asked Libby.
“He didn’t say much,” Libby testified. “You know, he said something about ‘From me?’ something like that, and tilted his head, something he does commonly, and that was that.”
Cheney’s version of the conversation, as related in the FBI interview summary?
Cheney “cannot recall Scooter Libby telling him how he first heard of Valerie Wilson.
