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Article: The Crossfire.(investigation into White House's leaking of spy's identity)(Vice President Dick Cheney's relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- October 31, 2005
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At first, the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame in a July 2003 Robert Novak column seemed like just another leak. In Washington, where information can be a weapon in policy battles, this one seemed intended to damage the credibility of her husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson, who earned White House wrath by publicly claiming the administration twisted intelligence to make its case for war with Iraq.
But like any good Washington potboiler, there is a back story. In this case, it's about the tensions between two of the most secretive institutions in Washington--the CIA and the office of Vice President Dick Cheney--and how policymaking can get ...