Politics | Dick Cheney Cheney: Wilson Mission Was CIA 'Amateur Hour' New docs show former veep thought ill of Plame husband's Nigeria trip By Polly Davis Doig Posted Oct 31, 2009 2:00 PM CDT Copied In this May 9, 2008 file photo, former CIA officer Valerie Plame speaks in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File) Dick Cheney's memory may have been a little iffy about the Valerie Plame leak, but Politico reports that the former veep left no room for doubt about his opinion of her husband's trip to Niger to investigate an Iraqi purchase of plutonium. "It was amateur hour out at the CIA," Cheney told a federal prosecutor in a 2004 interview released Friday. Read These Next ICE arrests casino magnate in a remote US territory. Norwegians are flabbergasted by Machado's Nobel giveaway. Pamela Anderson didn't love sitting near Seth Rogen at the Globes. John Mellencamp's little-known side gig: Indiana football fan. Report an error