Looks like a slam dunk perjury charge against Cheney:
UPDATE: this just in from the New York Times (came over the wire at approx. 10:45pm Eastern):
http://www.nytimes.com/...
here's the opening excerpt:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney denied in a interview with a special prosecutor investigating the C.I.A. leak case that he had played any role in the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Wilson as an intelligence officer, according to F.B.I. documents released Friday.
Some of the assertions by Mr. Cheney in his interview with the prosecutor on May 8, 2004, appeared to conflict with testimony at the 2007 trial of his chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice and whose sentence was later commuted by President George W. Bush.
Today, folks, a 28-page FBI interview summary was released to the watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
According to AP reporter Pete Yost:
Vice President Dick Cheney told the FBI he had no idea who leaked to the news media that Valerie Plame, wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA.
This is just too delicious - sorry to be stealing the story from the eeevul Huffington Post, but, hey...
In the interview whose participants included federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Cheney told agents that he did not recall having a conversation about either Plame or her husband with Bush.
The vice president said he probably discussed Wilson with Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, but told the FBI he would not have talked to Rove about Wilson's wife.
Oh please oh please let this be the beginning of justice being served to this horrible man!
Here's a schnib more from the article:
Cheney's denials that he talked about Plame are among the few things in the lengthy interview with the FBI that Cheney appeared certain about. He repeatedly said he could not recall key events. Among them, he said he did not recall discussing Wilson's wife with Libby before her CIA employment was publicly revealed by conservative columnist Robert Novak in mid-July 2003.
Sorry for the ill-crafted diary, but it seemed too important not to share. Cheers. Here's the link to the article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
UPDATE: a link to the story in the Washington Post (h/t Phil S 33):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
h/t Big Tex for the Monopoly Chance card image.
Raw Story's Muriel Kane has this take (from 10pm last night):
http://rawstory.com/...