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Hide and Seek with Scooter

jeudi 1er mars 2007

As Slate reporter John Dickerson put it, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the vice president’s former chief of staff “represents the other side of the Bush administration : the secret undisclosed side. Like the vice president he works for, Libby prefers to work on policy in the shadows and leave the politics to others.” Well, yes, but that depends on what one means by “politics.”

In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the president and his team were front and center, serving up the case for war, while Cheney and Libby, in their shadowy kitchen, were cooking the intelligence and beating back the CIA’s efforts to throw out their recipe.

Working behind the scenes, Cheney and Libby sought to manipulate the media coverage of their war propaganda, with the vice president himself taking an active role—via Scooter—in distributing “talking points” to his underlings....

- Justin Raimondo, editorial director of Antiwar.com

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