One lie after another with Dick Cheney and his supporters

October 20, 2005 -- White House spinmeisters are claiming that Vice President Dick Cheney and the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) engaged in a "work up" on Ambassador Joseph Wilson because they did not know who he was and wanted to have all the information on him so they could engage in "politics." The right wing is bemoaning a situation which they see as the "criminalization of politics." The White House and their media trolls (including the increasingly ubiquitous former federal prosecutor Joseph DiGenova and his law partner wife Victoria Toensing) are lying out of their teeth about Cheney and what he knew about Wilson.

Wilson was Deputy Chief of Mission in Baghdad when Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 5, 1990. Cheney, who was then the Secretary of Defense, flew to Saudi Arabia to confer with Saudi officials. The Defense Department was well aware of the situation in Baghdad, where Wilson had taken over the operation of the U.S. embassy in the absence of April Glaspie after she was recalled to Washington by the Bush I administration.


One lie after another with Dick Cheney and his supporters