Source: The Raw Story

Buried near the end of a bizarre Time article which compares Obama administration debates about whether to probe torture allegations with President Bush’s struggle to decide whether or not to pardon a former aide who obstructed a leak investigation are two paragraphs which reveal something new about L ‘affaire Plame.

Valerie Plame first became a household name when her identity was disclosed by conservative columnist Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. The column came only a week after her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, had written an op-ed for the New York Times asserting that White House officials twisted pre-war intelligence on Iraq. Her outing was seen as political retaliation for Wilson’s criticism of the Administration’s claim that Iraq sought uranium from Niger for a nuclear weapons program.

But now it turns out that it wasn’t just liberal bloggers and left-leaning Democrats that suspected former vice president Dick Cheney had engaged in a cover-up. According to Time, there were apparently some empty tin foil containers in the wastebaskets of the West Wing, as well.

A former Bush aide even tells the magazine that deep down, the president himself probably suspected Libby went to jail to cover-up for Cheney.

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