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Nick Kristof Echoes Dick Morris on Cheney
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is echoing former Clinton advisor Dick Morris on the Leakgate scandal, writing in his column today that Vice President Dick Cheney needs to answer a series of questions about his role - if any - in Lewis Libby's decision to leak CIA employee Valerie Plame's name to the press. "It's time for this vice president to give his Checkers speech," Kristof insists, before listing the questions he says Cheney needs to address. As Morris told NewsMax over the weekend, Kristof says Cheney needs to say whether he "advised Libby to leak information about Mrs. Wilson's work in the CIA?" And like Morris, the Times scribe wants to know whether Cheney was "aware of what [Libby] was saying" when he "made his statements in the inquiry - allegedly committing perjury."
Story Continues Below Kristof, however, goes further than Morris, saying that if Cheney doesn't come clean he should resign. In his own New York Post column today, Morris praises Cheney for helping to "carry forward the Reagan focus on making support for freedom central to our foreign policy." But the Libby indictment, he says, cannot be ignored. Morris wants to know: "Once Cheney realized that his top aide may have committed perjury, did he call Libby to account? Demand an explanation? Press him on whether he was, in fact, the leak? And if he didn't, why not?" He says Cheney should also be asked if his silence was meant as "a signal that it was OK for Libby to continue to cover up his role?"
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