Another setback
for Bush
WASHINGTON, April 6.—The sordidness around the
CIA-gate case has become even more murky since it
emerged that President George W. Bush authorized the
information leak on the identity of an agent from
that intelligence agency, according to legal
documents released today.
The
principal accused in the case, Lewis Libby, former
head of Vice President Richard Cheney’s cabinet,
brought the charge.
The former White House senior official is to date
the most implicated person in the CIA-gate affair,
which erupted with the publication of the identity
of the agent, Valerie Plame.
The revelation of the act is attributed to
government revenge against former ambassador Joseph
Wilson, Plame’s husband, who cast doubt on the
information utilized by the government to justify
the invasion of Iraq.
Libby was charged last October for obstructing
justice, perjury and false witness, for which he
could be sentenced to a 10-plus year term.
RUMSFELD ACCUSES CONDOLEEZZA OF IGNORANCE
In its turn, the DPA revealed a dispute between
the secretaries of defense and state, during which
Donald Rumsfeld accused Condoleezza Rice of scant
knowledge of the tactics of war, according to the
U.S. media.
In an interview, Rumsfeld responded to comments
by his colleague on the thousands of tactical errors
committed by the United States in Iraq. "I don’t
know what she’s talking about," Rumsfeld told the
regional WDAY broadcasting station in North Dakota.
