On â??Face the Nationâ? yesterday, former secretary of state Colin Powell accused former vice president Dick Cheney of taking â??cheap shotsâ? in his about-to-be released memoirs. However, in taking on Cheneyâ??s account of the Valerie Plame matter, Powell is the one who misleads and distorts.
Powell had this to say in response to Cheneyâ??s book, which lays blame on Powellâ??s deputy Richard Armitage as the real leaker who revealed Plameâ??s identity as a CIA employee, setting off the appointment of a special prosecutor and the eventual conviction of Scooter Libby. Powell says this:
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