More information on how Cheney was in this up to his neck.
Libby trial: Cathy Martin's testimony
By ecthompsonmd|2007-02-01T22:01:19-04:00February 1st, 2007|Valerie Plame|Comments Off on Libby trial: Cathy Martin's testimony
More information on how Cheney was in this up to his neck.
[…] Let’s remember that Scooter Libby was PO’ed at Chris Matthews. He had Adam Levine and Catherine Martin in the VP’s office review the transcripts of the HardBall. Chris Matthews was hammering Libby and Cheney during this time. Matthews was pushing a theory that Hawks (Perle, Libby and Wolfowitz) cherry picked information and get us into this war. Matthews went so far as to infer that Libby and Cheney knew the information that they were pushing was false. Libby had Adam Levine, a old Hardball producer, now working the VP’s office to call Matthews and ask him to back off. Well, that conversation didn’t go well. Libby then called Tim Russert who was/is in charge of the Washington News Bureau for NBC news (MSNBC is a division of NBC [I’m not exactly sure of the relationship but I know that Russert is senior to Matthews.]) Libby lays into Russert according to Russert (all of this is in the Hubris). Russert immediately called the president of NBC, Neal Shapiro, to relate his conversation with Libby. […]