Just got off the phone with Joe Wilson, whose exposure of the hollowness of the Niger-Iraq uranium claim set in motion the chain of events that led to Scooter Libby’s perjury and, today, his sentence’s commutation by President Bush. Wilson — who is pursuing a civil suit against Libby, Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney — called on Bush and Cheney to release the transcripts of their interviews with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald “to let the American people know what they knew and when they knew it.” If not, Wilson says, “Congress should hold hearings on the president’s role in the obstruction of justice.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180483