Cheney Knew.

Funny... how Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby's notes on his meeting(s) with VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY have suddenly surfaced, just as the special prosecutor's grand jury is completing its work.

Funny... how Judith Miller's notes on her conversation(s) with Libby regarding Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife turned up AFTER she realized she was facing criminal obstruction of justice charges.

Funny... how George W. Son Of Out-Of-The-Loop went from "This is background noise" to "This is a serious investigation" faster than a speeding bullet last week.

Funny... how the New York Times finally joins the reindeer games and breaks this story...

Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show

By DAVID JOHNSTON, RICHARD W. STEVENSON and DOUGLAS JEHL
Published: October 24, 2005

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 - I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003, lawyers involved in the case said Monday.

Funny...

NOT.

Martha Stewart was convicted for giving false statements (not under oath, mind you) during the investigation of a crime she wasn't charged with.

I expect no less for The Dick.

And I don't give a rat's ass that Cheney is fingering George Tenet as his source on Valerie Plame.

Anyone who believes that Tenet decided to out a covert CIA agent (thereby jeopardizing 20 years of WMD investigation and contacts) and waltzed into the vice president's office to do so-- on his own-- is seriously whacked.

Quick!

Time to divert, inveigle, and obfuscate!

But what could possibly knock this story off the front page?

Hm.

Time to indict Rush Limbaugh for serious background noise drug crimes!

Nothing less will do.

Today's burning question: What did George W. Bush know and when did he know it?