: Cheney on the Griddle by James Ridgeway

This shows one just how long Cheney has been on the griddle, so to speak, and zero has happened to him as a consequence.

Now he is again lying all over the place to get us into Iran; either he is lying or he is clearly delusional.

Either way, he has got to go!


village voice > news > Mondo Washington: Cheney on the Griddle by James Ridgeway:

Too hot to handle

The Bush administration has always insisted it did not know the uranium documents sent it from Italian intelligence were forgeries.

But La Repubblica, the Italian newspaper, last Tuesday revealed that the documents came from Nicolo Pollari, head of that nation's military intelligence service.

The paper said Pollari met secretly on September 9, 2002, with Hadley, at the time the deputy security adviser. A month later, forged papers were cabled to Washington from the U.S. embassy in Rome. They had been delivered to the embassy by an Italian reporter.

Last week a spokesman for the National Security Council told reporters that the meeting between Hadley and Pollari amounted to no more than a 15-minute courtesy call.

The spokesman then made this waffling statement: 'The subject of Iraq's supposed uranium deal with Niger is not believed to have come up.' He added, 'No one present has any recollection of yellowcake being discussed.'

The CIA had repeatedly warned Hadley that the uranium story was dubious. George Tenet, then head of the CIA, even called Hadley and told him to watch out for the suspicious story. Pollari reportedly also worked his ties within the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, run by Doug Feith, Rumsfeld's neocon in residence.