Ruling in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by a public interest group, the judge dismissed government objections to withholding FBI reports and notes, which describe an interview of Cheney by a special prosecutor. The government had argued that it could withhold the records because their release might chill cooperation by White House officials in future investigations.<\/font><\/p>\n At one point, the Justice Department argued that future officials might not want to talk to investigators if they knew that such interviews might "get on ‘The Daily Show’ " or be used as a political weapon.<\/font><\/p>\n But U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ruled that the government’s argument was too vague to justify withholding the documents under the public information laws.<\/font><\/p>\n The Justice Department cannot "describe with any reasonable degree of particularity the subject matter of the hypothetical proceedings, the parties involved, when such proceedings might occur, or how the information withheld here might be used by the hypothetical parties to interfere with these hypothetical proceedings," the judge wrote…<\/font><\/p>\n …Anne Weismann, chief counsel for CREW, said, "Overall we are very pleased that the judge did not accept an interpretation of FOIA that would have allowed the government to withhold law enforcement records in virtually every case."…<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Common Dreams<\/a>><\/p>\n Hats off to CREW<\/a>. They are doing some great work. My only complaint is that their site lacks an RSS feed, bot they\u2019re worth a spot in your favorites.<\/p>\n I look forward to getting the details of those interviews, because I do not doubt for a minute that Cheney told a pack of lies that we can expose. I still hope that the leaders of the Bush\/GOP regime will face the legal consequences of their many crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m sure you remember how the Bush\/GOP administration committed treason by disclosing the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame as revenge against her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson for truthfully exposing the Bush\/GOP lies inventing a phony sale of yellowcake uranium to Iraq. I trust you also remember that Scooter Libby went to prison for his […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jail](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/CheneyEvidenceontheWay_1CA2\/JailCheney.jpg\" "\\"Jail")
<\/a> A federal judge Thursday ordered the Justice Department to make public large portions of statements made by then-Vice President Richard B. Cheney to federal investigators about the Valerie Plame case<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n