The Rachel Maddow Show: For Liz and Dick Cheney, the Truth is Optional
By Heather Saturday Oct 31, 2009 5:45pm
Lawrence O'Donnell took his turn filling in for Keith on Countdown and Rachel Maddow called out the Cheney's for their continual lying on her show the next hour. CREW's Melanie Sloan joined Rachel later in the segment to discuss the newly released interview by the FBI which did not reveal much--other than his willingness to throw Scooter Libby under the bus. More on that from Marcy Wheeler:
Hung Out to Dry: One Former VP Chief of Staff
If I were Scooter Libby right now, I’d be seething. I’d be utterly disgusted with the way Dick Cheney hung me out to dry, over and over and over, in his interview with Fitzgerald. Cheney denies any knowledge of issues he and Libby worked on together repeatedly and he denies that his own orders and instructions had anything to do with activities that ultimately (though Cheney of course didn’t admit this) ended up outing Valerie Wilson.
There are three general categories of information about which Cheney hangs Libby out to dry.
Transcript from Lexis Nexis below the fold.
