SoonerBlue

If government officials can get away with anything as long as they invoke loss of memory, maybe Bill Clinton should have just said, "I cannot recall having sex with that woman."

After a lengthy legal battle - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics had to sue the Justice Department - notes from Dick Cheney's FBI interview about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA identity were finally released.

Surprise, surprise, like Alberto Gonzales and many other officials in GWBush's White House, Cheney couldn't remember much of anything...even crucial details like whether he told Scooter Libby about Valerie Plame Wilson.

Scooter's own notes produced at his trial show that in mid-June 2003 Cheney told him about Wilson's wife being in the CIA.

Scooter took the fall for Cheney, who probably told him that Bush would pardon him...that's why Dick was so mad when Bush didn't.

Read about it here: "WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.[..]"

Here's more from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics.

Maybe a little waterboarding could refresh Dick's memory...

Seriously, this is not only about lying to the FBI, or outing a CIA agent for political gains, or covering up the Plame outing...it's about Dick Cheney never being held accountable for eight long years of criminal activity.

His secrets will remain safe as long as the mainstream, corporate media refuses to touch Cheney or Bush... or any of their cohorts. The Wilsons have a pending civil suit which may bring a little closure to this outrageous act of treason ...but there is so much more...so much.

An angry Los Angeles couple has been charged with attacking and torturing two loan officers for failing to help them save their home. Police said the couple and three accomplices lured the loan agents into a Glendale home last week, robbed them, held them for hours and beat then with "wooden knuckles."

Read about it here at ABC news: "California's burgeoning foreclosure crisis turned violent after angry homeowners allegedly attacked and tortured two loan agents who they believed had reneged on a promise to help save their home, authorities said. [..]"

While I don't hold the agents blameless, I don't condone beating the crap out of anyone - unless they hurt children and animals - but a working class jury might let them off easy.

Whatever the sentence...now they'll get free housing at taxpayer expense...separate cells.