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Cheney on Plame Leak: I Can't Recall

VP comes up blank on specifics in newly released interview

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 30, 2009 6:02 PM CDT

(Newser) – After years of effort by the Bush and Obama administrations to keep documents related to the CIA leak case secret, redacted portions of the special prosecutor’s 2004 interview with Dick Cheney released today show plenty of nothing. The then-VP apparently suffered acute memory loss:... Read full story »

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