Selon Dick Cheney dans le bouquin a paraître la semaine prochaine.
"Dick Cheney writes in his forthcoming book, "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,” that he was surprised to learn that President George W. Bush had personally authorized a leak about Iraq strategy to a Washington Post columnist — a disclosure that the former vice president believed could be "a real disservice" to U.S. troops.
“On Tuesday morning, May 22 [2007]," Cheney writes, "a David Ignatius column appeared in the Washington Post titled ‘After the Surge: The Administration Floats Ideas for a New Approach in Iraq.’ It quoted administration officials on the need to revamp policy in order to attract bipartisan support and to take into account the fact that the surge might not have the stabilizing effect we had hoped.
"I was very concerned when I read the piece, and I raised it with the president in the Oval Office. ‘Whoever is leaking information like this to the press is doing a real disservice, Mr. President,’ I said, ‘both to you and to our forces on the ground in Baghdad.’ … ‘We have to correct this, particularly with our generals in the field.’ …
"A short time later [national security adviser] Steve Hadley came into my office and closed the door. He told me that he was the source for Ignatius and that he’d talked to him at the instruction of the president.”
The book, written with his daughter Liz Cheney, will be out Tuesday from Threshold Editions, a publishing imprint founded by his former aide Mary Matalin. Other revelations of West Wing intrigue:
—In July 2003, after the Joe Wilson op-ed in The N.Y. Times, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said during an Air Force One gaggle, re the 16 words Iraq and uranium: “We've said now we wouldn't have put it in the speech if we had known what we know now.”
Cheney writes: “The result was the conflagration I had predicted. … Rice realized sometime later that she had made a major mistake by issuing a public apology. She came into my office, sad down in the chair next to my desk, and tearfully admitted I had been right. Unfortunately, the damage was done. [CIA Director] George Tenet was furious at having had to apologize.”"
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