It's all about Cheney, the saga continues

As much as I'd like to see Rove go down the big target here is Libby. Libby's boss Dick Cheney is the source of most of the evil that has taken this country into an unjustified unwinnable war. The last couple of days we have been hearing about the forged Niger documents having possible ties to Cheney's office. Now we have this bombshell from Muarry Wass, Cheney, Libby Blocked Papers To Senate Intelligence Panel.

Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, overruling advice from some White House political staffers and lawyers, decided to withhold crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when the panel was investigating the use of pre-war intelligence that erroneously concluded Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, according to Bush administration and congressional sources.

Among the White House materials withheld from the committee were Libby-authored passages in drafts of a speech that then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell delivered to the United Nations in February 2003 to argue the Bush administration's case for war with Iraq, according to congressional and administration sources. The withheld documents also included intelligence data that Cheney's office -- and Libby in particular -- pushed to be included in Powell's speech, the sources said.

The new information that Cheney and Libby blocked information to the Senate Intelligence Committee further underscores the central role played by the vice president's office in trying to blunt criticism that the Bush administration exaggerated intelligence data to make the case to go to war.