The Plame investigation in a nut shell

INTELLIGENCE LEAKS Cheney's Call


By Murray Waas, National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007

The vice president's actions in 2002 helped set events in motion that led to the prosecution of Scooter Libby, his own chief of staff

Early on the morning of June 20, 2002, then-Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham, D-Fla., received a telephone call at home from a highly agitated Dick Cheney. Graham, who was in the middle of shaving, held a razor in one hand as he took the phone in the other.

The vice president got right to the point: A story in his morning newspaper reported that telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency on September 10, 2001, apparently warned that Al Qaeda was about to launch a major attack against the United States, possibly the next day. But the intercepts were not translated until September 12, 2001, the story said, the day after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.