From reading the actual
New York Daily
News article that Raw Story mentioned last night, it is not Cheney who has
turned over on the investigation but rather someone close to him. With that
going on, you can be certain the work atmosphere in Cheney’s office is very
unpleasant. I bet everyone continues to look over their shoulder to see who is
watching who.

Full
Article:

Cheney may be target of probe

BY JAMES GORDON MEEK, THOMAS M. DeFRANK and KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS
WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON – A special prosecutor’s intensifying focus into who outed a
CIA spy has raised questions whether Vice President Cheney himself is
involved, knowledgeable sources confirmed yesterday. At least one source and
one reporter who have testified in the probe said U.S. Attorney Patrick
Fitzgerald is pursuing Cheney’s role in the Valerie Plame affair.

In addition, at least six current and former Cheney staffers – most
members of the White House Iraq Group – have testified before the grand
jury, including the vice president’s top honcho, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, and
two top Cheney national security lieutenants.

Cheney’s name has come up amid indications Fitzgerald may be edging
closer to a blockbuster conspiracy charge – with help from a secret snitch.

“They have got a senior cooperating witness – someone who is giving them
all of that,” a source who has been questioned in the leak probe told the
Daily News yesterday.

Cheney was questioned last year by prosecutors and has hired a private
attorney, former colleague Terrence O’Donnell, who declined to comment when
contacted by The News.

Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride only offered the standard canned
response that her boss is cooperating.

Libby and President Bush’s political mastermind Karl Rove remain the
focus of the probe into whether Plame’s cover was blown in a scheme to
embarrass her husband, ex-Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who debunked claims that
Iraq tried to buy nuclear materials in Niger.

Libby is often described as “Cheney’s Cheney,” a loyal and discreet
lieutenant who shares his boss’s hard-line philosophy and bareknuckle
attitude toward political enemies of the Bush administration.

Cheney and Libby spend hours together in the course of a day, which
causes sources who know both men very well to assert that any attempts to
discredit Wilson would almost certainly have been known to the vice
president.

“Scooter wouldn’t be freelancing on this without Cheney’s knowledge,” a
source told the Daily News. “It was probably some off-the-cuff thing: ‘This
guy [Wilson] could be a problem.'”

The News reported in July that Libby was “totally obsessed with Wilson.”

Whether that obsession amounts to criminal misconduct will be decided by
Fitzgerald – but if Libby is indicted or implicated in wrongdoing, Cheney’s
reputation will suffer as well.

With news like this it is no wonder the reason why Lynn Cheney was out saying
her husband would not run for President in 2008. His political career is most
likely coming to a very abrupt end.