Bushspeak

"Get all the facts out" = "I want his wife DEAD! I want his goldfish DEAD! I want his poolboy DEAD!"

The big question: will Libby bow to Omerta or will he go Valachi and blow the whole case wide open? Uh, Scooter--you might just want to consult the Prison Primer I recently posted for the benefit of "Kenny Boy" Lay.

Libby Told Grand Jury Cheney Spoke of Plame

Vice President Cheney was personally angered by a former U.S. ambassador's newspaper column attacking a key rationale for the war in Iraq and repeatedly directed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, then his chief of staff, to "get all the facts out" related to the critique, according to excerpts from Libby's 2004 grand jury testimony released late yesterday by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

Libby also told the grand jury that Cheney raised as an issue that the former ambassador's wife worked at the CIA and that she allegedly played a role in sending him to investigate the Iraqi government's interest in acquiring nuclear weapons materials. That issue formed the basis of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV's published critique.

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