More Amazing Stuff on Cheney and Libby and the Iraq War

From the National Journal, more damning evidence about the deliberately falsified (or "stretched") information that led to the war, and the subsequent attempt to cover it up:

Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, overruling advice from some White House political staffers and lawyers, decided to withhold crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when the panel was investigating the use of pre-war intelligence that erroneously concluded Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, according to Bush administration and congressional sources.

The Bush Administration argued that it could not be blamed for its good faith reliance on faulty intelligence work (not to mention Sadaam's dastardly trickery). The information withheld from the Senate Intelligence Committee, however, would have revealed the intervention of Libby/Cheney in shaping the misinformation.

Had the withheld information been turned over, according to administration and congressional sources, it likely would have shifted a portion of the blame away from the intelligence agencies to the Bush administration as to who was responsible for the erroneous information being presented to the American public, Congress, and the international community.

Surprised?