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Posted on Monday 19 February 2007

Times: What we learned from Libby trial about the secretive operation of Vice President Dick Cheney

(Editor’s note at bottom: Times puts ‘hold’ on Cheney story)

Monday’s New York Times contains an article which will tie together some of the revelations that resulted from testimony at the trial for former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Libby was charged with obstruction of justice and lying to investigators probing the alleged leaking of a CIA operative’s name to journalists, and his defense rested its case last week, without calling his former boss, Cheney, to the stand, as had been widely speculated. Libby didn’t testify in his own behalf, either.

"What we learned from the Libby trial about the inner workings of the White House, especially the secretive operation of Vice President Dick Cheney," Jim Rutenberg and Scott Shane’s article will detail, according to an early budget received by RAW STORY.

"The story will focus mostly on one crucial week in early July 2003," the budget continues…
"Oh look," thought I last night when I saw this Raw Story note, "They’re going to summarize what we’ve learned about the Vice President’s misbehavior from the Libby Trial in the New York Times." But this morning, there was an added notation, "(Editor’s note at bottom: Times puts ‘hold’ on Cheney story)." I scrolled down and found this:
Cheney story ‘held’ by Times

Although multiple budgets indicated that the Cheney story would run in Monday’s edition, an additional budget was released after the final one which indicated that the story was being "held," although for unexplained reasons.

A note from the Times editors said that another article about Sunni lands in Iraq showing oil and gas promise was moved to the front page instead.

While it’s still possible that the Cheney story will be published online late Sunday night along with Monday’s paper, it may be "held" until Tuesday’s edition or later, assuming it will still run.
This morning – there is no such article on the New York Times front page. Last week, Walter Pincus’ article on Douglas Feith in the Washington Post was pulled and revised at the request of the Pentagon [according to Feith, on the Situation Room]. So now, we are wondering if the Government had something to do with pulling this article. What would make us think that the Office of the Vice President might have had something to do with this article being pulled? Well maybe we’ve gotten the impression from the Libby Trial evidence itself that the OVP is obsessed with bad Press and tries to exert influence on what gets published.

That’s why…

  1.  
    joyhollywood
    February 19, 2007 | 8:12 AM
     

    I’m scared. If what you say is true about the pulled stories in the times and WP The White House and especially the VP office has taken over the press. I’m not sure that I can ever trust the Times again. These are corporations rthat are having a hard time making money because the internet is being read for free. Dick Cheney is not called by some the dark one for nothing. What has the White House told them to stop the stories? The only other thing I can think of is the Patrick Fitzgerald’s office asked them to wait until the Libby trail is over. I hope that is the case.

  2.  
    Mickey
    February 19, 2007 | 9:17 AM
     

    I wondered if Cheney’s office had asked them, but your idea is a better and kinder possibility – Fitzgerald’s office. But I’m still concerned that it wasn’t benign. Mr. Cheney, as we have learned, doesn’t much go for “bad Press.”

  3.  
    dc
    February 19, 2007 | 4:58 PM
     

    You might have some fun w/ this, M.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=436802&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source

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