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>> our know if i'm doing is right. you noticed that contract at this feels like a picture s moment straight out >> how can i fill the knees? >> welcome to >> first and foremost grateful it was by no means an easy feat >> the video you just saw, cj was the first time he ever went to the beach. it's the first of many steps forward for cj and his new life. and as you heard in the hour, he plans to go back to school to study a law. thanks for watching the whole story. i'll see you next sunday >> in the 30 or so years i've
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lived in washington, dc. i've watched this company town at work off-duty politicians and members of the press sometimes gathering over dinners or drink just to trade gossip and share secrets because here information is the coin of the realm >> but >> in the early 2000s and the terrible wake of 911, some in the dc media got a little hello too cozy with the bush white house as it tried to make the case for going to war in iraq. and when the bush administration's cause for war started to unravel an explosive allegation became a federal investigation whether the white house sought to retaliate against a critic by disclosing the identity of a covert cia agents whose name was suddenly everywhere back in 2003. it
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suddenly seemed as though everyone knew this woman's name, valerie plane rally, plain calorie playing, valerie plane. he's probably heard my name but valery claim is a name you and i were never supposed to know because she was a covert cia operative >> who's covered was blown by some of them most powerful people on the planet. >> my name and identity were carelessly and recklessly abused by senior government officials in both the white house and the state department so why would the us government exposed one of its own secret agents? well, to hear plane tell it, that's because her husband tried to blow the whistle on the white house's shaky justification for invading iraq. but that's just one version of the store and the whole truth is actually more illuminating. and in some ways, troubling. the story begins in the wake of 911 with
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bush administration officials fearful that saddam hussein over iraq might have weapons of mass destruction >> saddam hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction. >> the only thing that would keep americans safe would be to invade iraq and take him out which said. and so we did within the year, one man's step forward with what he believed to be the truth ambassador joe wilson, valerie claims husband. wilson wrote an op-ed in the new york times claiming that the bush administration was relying on shaky intelligence assert that saddam was seeking uranium from africa because he was the guy who had been to niger to find out >> there was no reason to believe that the transaction that had been alleged in these documents that were later deemed to be forgeries had ever taken place or could have taken place and the bush white house did not appreciate that this claim that sets off a firestorm in washington a week after
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wilson blew the whistle, columnist robert novak >> working on a tip from the bush administration, published an article, not only refuting wilson's claim but also suggesting that the trip you took, the niger was green-lit by low level cia operatives without the knowledge of higher-ups. >> the bush administration struck back by revealing the identity of his wife a cia operative, somebody deliberately blew her covered. >> so serious matter, not only do you put her at risk, but you also put the sources they have worked with over the years had considered when rescue the fallout from the whole debacle was massive, the equivalent of a scandal dirty bomb almost every senior white official had to testify. >> the law makes it illegal to knowingly and maliciously feel the identity of a covert agent. >> the preliminary inquiry had given way to a full blown criminal investigation that will of course focused on the president's inner circle. >> this story was incredibly
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influential to my identity as a journalist. it was a reminder that the press must always challenge the people in power no matter how much public support those politicians may have in the lead up to the war are fragile system of checks and balances meant that instead of sounding the alarm, some in the fourth estate, to many of us joined the drumbeat for a war that resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 iraqis and thousands of us troops. 1 that diminished trust in the news media kenya, and destroyed the cia career of one woman at the center of it all >> we good >> great >> were you concerned at all that the revealing of your name could put lives at risk, is that possible >> yes, it is possible absolutely. >> there's a reason that ops >> officers work undercover which is so that you can move
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around the world. you can recruit, you can handle the assets without endangering them or their families the fact that a journalist knew my true cia affiliation or somehow was put onto it, whether it was confirmed or not, was deeply unsettling to me >> unsettling to also believe that being outed as a covert cia agent is the work of the government. you are risking your life to protect to take a step back for those of you who don't remember the bush years, let's remind you of the cast of characters here. president george w bush campaigned in the year 2000 as a compassionate conservative, decidedly not focused overseas the bush administration. understood itself to be a domestic policy administration prior to 911 there wasn't much of a foreign policy strategy in place. >> bush, of course, wanted to be taken seriously on the international stage, but just three years earlier, he
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couldn't name the leaders of foreign powers who had nuclear weapons after 911. of course, all that changed the most powerful individual on this subject was vice president richard cheney, vice president dick cheney architect of a neo conservative foreign policy that reshaped the middle east and adding to his menacing public persona, drew comparisons to darth vader public image. he ultimately embraced >> we're going to talk about star wars. we might as well invite darth vader >> he had developed a reputation as kind of a very ceramic pithy, tough-guy if you provide sanctuary to terrorist, you face the full rank after the united states of america >> he was arguably the most powerful vip in history. then there were various secretaries and aids widely beloved secretary of state, colin powell and his close friend and deputy richard armitage. the tough guy secretary of defense, don rumsfeld and louis scooter,
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libby affectionally referred to around the white house as dick cheney's dick cheney >> libby was chief of staff to the vice president. so he was a senior person helping keep the trains on i'm time. >> and finally, someone who always had president bush's ear, senior advisor to the president karl rove. >> karl rove was one of bush's top political people and media gurus. >> he was always colorful character. he will. but when you give him a chance, look at him both donor rapid wrapping aka role. >> it was a weird time, but ultimately this was a scandal that could not have happened without the news media. and of course, after months of us troops in iraq, still no serious stockpile of weapons of mass destruction it makes no sense, except if you look at it
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at the white house blow the cover of a cia operative after her husband criticize the run-up to >> the war write-offs is certainly been thrown out a defense and as a result of this issue so but it does have for real scandal on his hands. >> the plane the fair did not follow the usual scandal playbook claims downfall was not caused by her own flaws or mistakes no. she was a woman just doing her job until she ran up against the hubris and egos at several men. so when you joined the cia, i understand your mom was worried >> as >> every mother wouldn't be the central intelligence agency needs men and women with backgrounds and company get around physical sciences to you, we say these are times to put your training and ability to work where it really comes after cia. >> so this is the 1990s and why would you want to join the cia? like how did that? >> just because it was the reagan era and patriotism was part of, that was part of i come from a family of public service so there was this idea
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in my family of quiet patriotism, not to mention, it sounded like it was a lot more interesting than any of my friends were doing >> the need for >> cia covert >> operations has been essential both before and after the collapse of the soviet union. and with the soviet nuclear stockpile scattered, terrorists at the time were eager to get their hands on any nuclear weapons they could find valerie plan was part of a clandestine group responsible for making sure that didn't happen i mean, how would you describe yourself? what were you there was undercover an undercover cia officer? yes, i always what's called the case officer. i did operations. i was undercover. >> phone your spine? >> yeah. >> i just picture. i have all sorts of pictures. of like, you know, here you are in casa blanca wearing a hijab and talking to an arms dealer why yes, that's a piece of it. yes. essentially making sure the bad guys do not get nuclear weapons. i love what i did. i was proud to serve my country i thought i had the best job in
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the world valerie and i served our country for collective 43 years she served for 20 and i served for 23. we served our country as americans he worked under george hw bush. >> absolutely. hw bush called him a true american hero. >> what was it like when you met him was love at first sight, where you swept off your feet, where he was? >> yes. yes. yes he was handsome and so intelligent and spoke perfect french, and he was kind of in my world having lived and worked parked overseas, ambassador wilson gained considerable distinction the outset of the gulf war in 1991, for saving american citizens who were resident in kuwait city at the time of the rocky invasion after five months, of having, having worked as hard as we have been able to work having the hostages home, that is real pleasure to be back here he was something of a >> heroic figure in the state department at that time. >> joe wilson was a very
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flamboyant diplomat >> didn't suffer fools gladly. and he definitely had confidence in his own abilities >> once it i'm hussein threatened to hang anyone who assisted american hostages escaping kuwait city wilson showed up to a press conference with a noose around his neck, bringing new meaning to the term statement piece it's fair to say, i think that he had a certain degree of showmanship. is that fair to say? >> i mean, yeah, he was really combative. he understood that sometimes the only way you can deal with a bully is get right up into his face >> but the united states, decades of intelligence gathering could not prepare them for the largest international terrorist attack the us ever faced. >> we believe a commercial jet crashed into one of the towers of the world trade center. at this point, we do not have official injury update it's to bring you 911 happens.
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>> how did that >> affect your professional life >> again, everyone else can you knew immediately we were at war within days. the us sent troops to afghanistan to root out al-qaeda operatives responsible for 911. and so with the war on terror officially underway, president bush adopted a policy to combat any potential threats from around the world >> the bush >> doctrine of preemptive strikes hit them before they hit us george w bush had become convinced that the way to keep america safe from future terrorist, it's bread freedom, and the way to spread freedom in the middle east is to >> confront threats before they emerge. >> if we wait for threats to fully materialize we will have waited too long >> i personally supported sowing into afghanistan, routing the taliban. there's no question that was the root of what had happened with 911 but
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reign of a leader who supported terrorism two exact revenge for saddam trying to kill his dad. president george hw bush. and on, and on >> and yet, >> even though trace elements were ultimately not only detecting, it was nothing on the scale of ready to use stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. >> at this point in the white house is trying to build census that iraq has weapons of mass destruction let >> us flash to 2002 after 911 there is this determination to not only go after al-qaeda but to make sure that any other potential threat is not able to hit the united states. >> that's right. i don't think the country had quite yet realized that we were already pivoting toward iraq >> a younger >> junior analysts received a phone call from the office of the vice president and they wanted to know about this report that was circulating and the intelligence community at that time about this tremendous
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sale, 500 tons of yellow cake uranium, which is used in the process to make highly enriched uranium from niger to iraq so my boss at the time asked me to go home and ask my husband ambassador joe wilson did come into the cia headquarters we're they could talk with him about this report and see if he might be willing to go to new jair to check it out further, wilson had trusted connections with the political elites of new share and obviously if there was any truth to these radioactive allegations, wilson would want and to alert the bush administration >> he flies back from new share. what happens? there is >> there's cia analysts there at the house to debrief them immediately because this information, it goes back to the office of the vice president they sit down in the living room. angel said luck this report about yellowcake uranium. this could never have happened. this is a totally
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bogus report. here's who i spoke to here's what they know, and so forth. >> thank you very much, ambassador >> wilson, and they left and that was what the public hurting different message dictated by the white house information group headed up by karl rove, scooter, libby, national security adviser, condoleezza rice, and vice president dick cheney. their mission was to market and sell the iraq war, driving home the message of the president >> and to some who >> bought the message as supporting details stood out in that march 2002 cia intelligence report, based on wilson's visit to niger mentioning that wilson learned of an inquiry iraq had made about expanding commercial relations with niger, who's leading export was uranium but since there was no active deal, what was reported was that there wasn't much to it the ways in which the news media and the white house interact can be very inside baseball,
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but it's crucial to understanding just how exactly this story unfolded. because i was not a member of the white house press corps at the time i turned to my old friend, matthew cooper, who was on the beat for time magazine in 2002, and ended up being caught in the eye of the storm. in some ways, i look back at the bush years and how there was not enough critical coverage of the case for war when the bush administration was making it. i don't think no press i think drop the ball at times. >> right >> way you have a white house correspondent other than reporting what the president does and trying to break stories, the gig is to have relationships, but it's to never forget what those relationships are for other in service of getting information to the reader. it's not about you making friends it's not about you feeling important. i mean, look, people in the white house noted that you're not there to be their friend, but sometimes it serves their interests to leak certain things washington dc is a company town. everyone is here
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to participate in politics. knowing people and relationships is actually the key to journalism. >> you could be at a table at brunch and someone very powerful is sitting next to you and you can get a scoop dc is just that kind of talent. it never shuts off. the information is churning 24 hours >> and with a grief stricken nation fully supporting them after 911, the bush administration was headed towards war or in iraq. and the further their case they planted intelligence with new york times reporter judith miller, who along with matthew cooper from time magazine, was among the white house press corps. heavy hitters. scooter libby met with miller and september 2002 judith miller and writes an article in the new york times. it alleges that the iraqi government has quotes, sought to buy thousands of specialty designed aluminum tubes, which american officials believed were intended as components of centrifuges to enrich uranium. now, we later
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find out scooter libby who is vice president cheney's chief of staff, told this to judith miller, right? yes. so you're you're at a point where it's a total echo chamber, right? >> the echo chamber works like this, but white house would leak opinions and information to select friendly journalists, those they had a strong relationship with those journalists would report that information sometimes without independently confirming it to be true. and then officials from the white house would go on tv insight those journalists as proof of their claims >> there's a store then york times this morning that in fact he has been seeking to acquire are the kinds of tubes that are necessary to build a centrifuge. and the centrifuges required to take low grade uranium and answered into highly enriched uranium, which is what you have to have in order to build a bomb. >> it works so well, they kept doing it. >> we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. again, distinguished between al-qahera and sadar when he
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talked about the war on terror >> and while they've been building their case for war through the news media pipeline. >> the >> could iraq came at the state of the union address when president bush read these 16 words that were absolutely chilling the british government has learned to saddam hussein recently psaki, significant quantities of uranium from africa >> as we prepare to go to combat in march 2003 i thought maybe the president and his inner circle has access to intelligence far beyond my pay grade. >> you were giving him the benefit it out? yes, i was >> but joe wasn't necessarily know >> was just continuing to dig away at the state of the union address which you know, is the most heavily vetted each word is way and thought and argued, how did that get it? that doesn't make sense to the
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>> nice one, kelly >> hello, florida every step covered. >> the lead with jake tapper weekdays at four and cnn my. >> march >> 2003, the us invaded iraq, partly using bushes, infamous 16 words as >> a final justification for war and now with the war on terror raging in both iraq and afghanistan popular culture followed suit in favor of tobi keith, aggressive brand of patriot criticism. >> we have pulled up many
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reputations, ron and so many americans watching the war unfold on tv seemed comforted to know that, yes, our troops were indeed kicking we're. continuing to watch the skies over baghdad on a very active night. they're having what have been characterized as a relatively easy time of it disappointed that the bombs or the cruiser missiles fell before you got your orders to move forward? >> no, sir. >> it's post 911 america and the white house can ride that story line forever. and in some ways, the chris get into the whole world was watching. >> and then just six weeks into the invasion of iraq, a new made for tv spectacle. president bush hitching a ride on a fighter jet to the uss abraham lincoln, just off the coast of san diego to make what proved premature announcement george w bush puts on a flight suit yeah, the tight one. frankly, >> he's got the luck, doesn't a hotel here. that is the >> fighter pilots stride >> if i ever saw it, he's got to go and i'm craig. >> and then he gives a speech
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about the end of combat operations with a huge banner behind him that says mission accomplished >> yeah >> the mission was not accomplish no, not >> remote be accomplished in it'll go down as one of the great moments of presidential hubris of all time. >> in the battle of iraq >> the >> united states and our allies have prevailed >> the united states had not won a war in iraq nine states had started a war in iraq >> this moment encapsulated everything they critics of the iraq war. we're saying, which was this one? was too much about marketing and not enough about solid intelligence >> and then the other thing that was not particularly covered here as aggressively as i think you would agree, it should have, which is where are the weapons of mass destruction? where are they exactly? >> i mean, we get there and there's no secret labs, there's no reactor, there's no
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centrifuges the whole cost of war suddenly seems rather suspect >> there's an understatement >> because as soon as us troops landed in iraq, it quickly became apparent that americans whereas safe from wmd in iraq, as the troops actively searching for them >> oh, weapons of mass destruction were found at far from being a quick victory iraq went up in sectarian play i remember this very well. i was writing for the web site salon.com and i was covering the way us service members were not finding weapons of mass destruction most americans and journalists seemed to take it for granted that wmd would eventually be found. but of course that's because none of us knew what joe wilson had been up to and watching the war proceed was just too much for joe much for joe so what did >> joe do from the state of the union? 2003 >> he turn this over every moment was like, look, i
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>> know i went to new share. i investigated these reports that wasn't true he spoke to his former colleagues and the state department and he spoke to people up on the hill that this isn't right. >> i became an obsession >> yes. >> joe wilson was so upset that after months of stewing over bushes, false statement, he published an op-ed in the new york times refuting bush's state of the union address claim basically calling the president out as a liar, wilson thank here's the white house and manipulating the intelligence from niger to justify an invasion of iraq. >> new questions about the president's case against iraq with some of the base, i'm bad intelligence. >> so tell me about when you first read joe wilson's op-ed. >> it was really, i think ball galvanizing. he had a lot of credit because he had been a bush one ambassador. then all of a sudden that kind of wait, where the hell are the nuclear weapons? question was front and center
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>> all hell broke loose. did the administration and mislead us on weapons of mass destruction? >> the british government has learned to saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa >> and wilson refuting those 16 words cause the white as to retreat from the statement faster than you could say freedom fries. >> no one now what we did not know at the time of the state of the union and the president in retrospect, were not have included that remark in the state of the union speech, as you know, can expect the president to know every detail about every phrase and such a long complex address. unless of course, you go to the most unlikely of sources, the white house's own website which displays a picture of the president, quote reviewing the state of the union address line by line, word by word, behind the scenes, vice president cheney strongly oppose the white house taking it back >> the british >> after all, were standing by their intelligence >> your husband, he made his point. the white house conceded
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his point done. >> that's right. >> except it wasn't the bush team could have dropped this right then and there, but they didn't where were you when the robert novak column came out in the washington post, >> the first time i read it in print was the morning of or you didn't know that he had done it. you knew no idea. no idea. we had no idea robert novak was a legendary conservative columnist with more than 40 years of reporting in washington dc. >> i'm robert >> novak, but to many of his colleagues, he was known as the prince of darkness he was a fixture on cable news. >> do you think democrats have got their house in order after taking up pasting from the republicans last november? no way he was very tied into the bush administration and if he was saying something you knew that he was getting it straight from the white house >> the washington post lands on your stoop, on your stoop? >> yeah. brighten early 530 joe
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picks up the paper, comes upstairs and he threw the paper on the bed and i snatched it up read it there's a journalist out there who knows my name undercover novak was trying to discredit ambassador wilson with the leak of my name i just felt like i'd been sucker punched the son of a did it this year the one thing republicans and democrats have been common, they're both waiting for their nominees to die this such white trash in congress you have young american, same been lot getting it, right. why don't you take a gap year in a botta bog >> have a show were right and left talk to him sanity needs to save space. >> cnn presents an encore presentation of hbo's real time with bill maher, saturday at eight on cnn
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>> we've got to go 17,004 parts >> we bring you the best neighborhood info, homes.com >> in late 2003, while the bush administration was very busy sending troops into iraq to not find any wmd valerie plane was dealing with her own show after her covert cia status was revealed by robert novak in his syndicated opinion column, >> wilson never worked for the cia he by his wife valerie claim is an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. >> you must have a theory about why they did this i think that the white house was feeling pretty vulnerable. and so they decided to make the story about joe wilson and valerie plane. >> were you worried about your babies? >> i was because because there's a lot of people out there that don't think highly of the cia
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>> but whatever >> happens to me happens to me, it's part of the deal, but my children and that was absolutely horrifying >> you are outed as a cia operative, undercover and all sorts of countries can then go back and look at cia sources that are in their own governments, in their own countries and potentially even in torture or kill them. >> exactly. this is horrifying. it pains me to think that i even inadvertently would put anyone in danger >> it is really, truly despicable. i a public servant is wasting his time attacking my family with valerie being the talk of the town, wilson and playing wanted justice. >> wilson says the leak was payback for his criticism of the administration's iraq policy. >> i would hope that an investigation would yield the information as to who was responsible for the precise leak the cia was, in fact, very upset about what happened and they ultimately asked the
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justice department and to do an investigation, but justice department has launched an inquiry into who gave a nationally syndicated columnist the name of a cia age. >> if there's a leak out of my administration, i wanted but yes, if the person has violated laws of personal be taken care of the justice department began an investigation into the leak in september 2003, the first journalist to have reported her name was novak, obviously, so the prosecutor, patrick fitzgerald, summoned to novak for a private meeting the public did not learn about this for years, but it turns out that the late robert novak, the all prince of darkness, immediately revealed his confidential sources. >> patrick fitzgerald knew that army, which was the lake, because in the first secret interrogation of me and for sterile, indicated he knew the identity of not only my primary source, but my secondary source of my tertiary source >> deputy secretary of state richard armitage had apparently inadvertently leaked to play identity and karl rove, to his
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surprise, became novak's second source. based only on what he remembers telling novak, quote, i heard that too. it came originally from the state department the leak. >> well, what we now know is that there were actually multiple points. >> there are multiple points of leak. we know that it was richard armitage who was the deputy secretary of state, correct? >> and with that much internal chatter about the op-ed valerie planes named found its way to journalists, including judith miller in matthew cooper cooper published an article in time saying government officials had revealed to him valerie name miller, didn't publish anything. the justice department subpoena them both to testify about who their sources were. >> they want to know who your sources work. >> it was clear that that's what they were interested and you wouldn't tell them? >> i wouldn't tell them >> and judith miller was in jail? yeah. she was found in contempt and she did go to jail it is a sad time when to
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journalists faced the prospect of going to prison for keeping >> those confidences cooper narrowly avoided jail time when his source, karl rove, granted cooper permission to reveal his identity. if it's gerald's grand jury. >> and you heard valerie >> planes name from i heard from a couple what pete bought credit from karl rove did an inch form from scooter libby vice president's chief of staff >> you ever called rove and he's like wilson's wife's all cia and carlos >> right. but you totally can't tell anyone. i told you amount was and calls all you double seek her wound. >> and that was >> i totally super secret double steeper, steeper won't tell by this point so many bush officials have been identified as leakers. it seemed easier to ask who was not involved? finger-pointing was everywhere. joe wilson earned iyer within the white house for what he was saying, such as at a forum in seattle. when he said, quote,
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wouldn't it be funny to see karl rove frog marched out of the white house in handcuffs, but as for who actually got in trouble for the league, only one member of the information taskforce took the fall. lewis scooter, libby, the vice president's right-hand man to actually testified that he first heard the name from late nbc washington bureau chief tim roster when he said did you know that a bachelor wilson's right. works at the in i was a little taken aback by that. and i no, i don't know that a restaurant disputed that. >> and >> fitzgerald charged libby with perjury. >> the indictment charges libby with one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of false statements to fbi agents, and two counts of perjury i wish fitzgerald had been able to convict more because clearly there was a conspiracy and there was a >> law that passed under reagan
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making it a crime to out intelligence operatives. >> that's correct. it's called the intelligence identities protection act unfortunately, the bar is pretty high to be able to prove that someone did it knowingly. and this is what special prosecutor fitzgerald was up against to try to prove prove that any of them had my identity revealed for the far east purposes. >> for me, was when i found this out, i felt like they were passing out my name like candy. are you kidding me whether you know, my covert status or not, you just don't do that so do that and armitage should have known better >> what's weird is it oriented kind of escapes this whole thing with his reputation intact, do anything? yeah, you guys >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i did that. >> i feel terrible every day. i think i went down the president, i'll let down the sector of state. i let down by department, my family, and i also let down mr.. mr. others should have been held
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accountable. clearly, there was a conspiracy >> was there it all >> started after all, when >> robert novak ran into joe wilson in the nbc meet the press green room novak thought wilson was a quote asl. then when novak talk to armitage a couple of days later, he asked why the cia would send wilson tunisia what's up with this guy? >> and that's when armitage told him, well, i think his wife sent him washington dc is more gossipy than a high school lunch room because washington in more like house of cards or is it more like vip? and i'm here to tell you washington is more like vip stupidity is always the explanation in washington, dc, there was a sort of conspiracy to push out the certain narrative. >> dick >> cheney written in the margins of joe's op-ed, who's his wife, question mark >> what cheney had actually written, quote have they done this sort of thing before send
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an ambassador to answer a question do we ordinarily send people out pro bono to work for us? or did his wife sent him on a junk? >> bush white >> house supporters note that patrick fitzgerald never charged anyone, but living never proved to conspiracy and never proved that anyone knew claim was covert. but it is closing arguments at libby sentencing. fitzgerald stated, quote, there is a cloud over what the vice president did that week. >> we >> didn't put that now there. that cloud remains because the defendant has obstructed justice lied about what happened >> las vegas wouldn't be here if it wasn't in constant state of evolution. >> he really get inaugurated a new hero for the peaks jr.'s. why did it get >> vegas? the story of sensitive? next on cnn >> meet the traveling trio each helping to protect their money with taste tools that help protect alerts that helped
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investigation, only scooter libby was sentenced to 30 months in >> prison, which george w bush later commuted cheney thought live he was guilty of nothing worse than a faulty memory and thought bush would pardon him. but at a private lunch, bush told cheney he would not >> mr. president cheney and he told him, you are leaving a good man wounded on the field of babel >> i was clearly not happy in that we end affect life. scooter sort of hanging in the wind beyond all of it, armitage, bush, cheney, rove, libby fitzgerald, was valerie playing a woman who had done nothing but prefer country. >> and it >> was now left to pick up the pieces of her life and career you and joe separated before he passed away in 2019? >> in this. >> tear you apart, or was it it caused a great deal of damage? because i couldn't speak out for some time. he was carrying the water for both of us and i
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think ultimately it just cuts so deeply. >> hoping to prevent future leaks. congress called the hearing on whether white house officials followed protocol for protecting valerie planes identity we in the cia always know that we might be exposed and threatened by foreign enemies. it was a terrible irony that administration officials were the ones who destroyed my how to destroyed my cover leaving >> her with well a lot of shock and all >> ultimately, we were sort of a template for what we see today in terms of distortion and disinformation and the involvement in the media unwittingly or not >> as the wilson plane brahma ended on the domestic front, the cost on the international stage of the wmd issue was much harsher with an entire region paying a much deadlier price because of a war, many americans would come to view as
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a mistake suppose a war that ended up with tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dead, innocent iraqis complete destabilization of iraq thousands of american dead service members wounded, service members, service members who went on to take their own lives. they thought they were doing the result of it is hard to justify >> we're not just talking about an abstract things who is right, who is wrong? there's good, who is bad. this had real consequences and so this is the rare scandal that really mattered >> one year into the war, it was finally dawning on the bush administration. the gravity of its actions >> so tonight i'm going to do one of my slide shows those weapons of mass destruction got to be somewhere >> i'm kidding. obviously that didn't happen
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>> nope, no weapons over there i vividly remember sitting in that very room in credulous people were dead or wounded because of this hunt for wmd this wasn't funny. it made me sick >> and a whole room full of news >> media was all in on the so-called joe joke that had a body count what is this about is it a bout media being to show with politicians? is it about & administration's so? blinded by their desire to go to war and justify it, that they're willing to do anything. >> if the old adage show >> you the first casualty of war is the truth. >> it's really true here >> i mean, they did want to extend their prefabrication. they're lying, however you want to put it about the war the through another means, but it's also about a culture of the press that's not always
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responsible. bus found the administration on the administration side and the press side >> so many people in the media we're taking the bush administration's words at face value, >> totally. >> everybody has to do a hard look at themselves afterwards >> looking back at this scandal, i am struck by the fact that the real source of the leak was dick armitage someone who seem to have just gotten caught up in gaza in an incestuous gab fast with a columnist with an agenda and then my focus, it turns to us maybe in the plane affair we in the news media found it convenient narrative to go after the bush administration because we did not push back enough on its defense of faulty intelligence. the first time disinformation is rampant, trust in the media is the lowest. it's ever been. >> if >> we encounter an event that unites the country is feverishly as september 11, 2001 did well that's when we'll see how much we've actually
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learned and what about president bush recently he spoke against vladimir putin's barbaric invasion of ukraine, which putin justified by citing bushes, iraq war. and while the comparison differs in many key ways putin was not the only one with iraq on his mind. >> the result is an absence of checks and balances in russia. and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of iraq. i mean, ukraine >> all right. anyway one of the most uncomfortable freudian slips

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