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    Photo: AP Newly released documents show that then Vice President Dick Cheney offered a scathing critique of the decision to send former Ambassador Joe Wilson on an intelligence-gathering trip to Niger ahead of the Iraq war: "Amateur Hour out at the CIA" Cheney said. The account comes from an FBI report of Cheney’s 2004 interview with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who investigated the leak of the fact that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, was a covert officer at the CIA. Full Article at The Politico
    Amateur Hour out at the CIA
    Dick Cheney – Dick Cheney SOURCE: The Politico 1 month ago
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Cheney: Wilson mission 'Amateur Hour'
  1. In fact, the Vice President stated that he’d learned more details about Wilson’s trip and its purpose from the New York Times than he’d been able to get from the CIA.
    SOURCE: The Politico 1 month ago
  2. had a sense that the DCI was defensive and embarrassed about the issue and had not known what was going on with regards to this mission
    SOURCE: The Politico 1 month ago
  3. Wilson’s fact-finding mission did not appear to be up to professional trade-craft standards inasmuch as Wilson did not review the relevant documents, did not execute a confidentiality requirement, and he apparently returned without filing a written report of his findings
    SOURCE: The Politico 1 month ago

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