Cheney Chief Spokesman Leaves Country
John Byrne of Raw Story reports:
The chief spokesman for Vice President Dick Cheney, Steve Schmidt, left the United States Oct. 3 and won't return until Oct. 26, well after the investigation into who outed a covert CIA agent wraps up, RAW STORY has confirmed.
Schmidt has left for Iraq. A RAW STORY email sent to Schmidt's private White House address Tuesday yielded this reply: "I will be out of the country from October 3rd through October 26th and will have VERY limited email access. For assistance, please contact Jon Berrier at 202-XXX-XXXX. Thank you."
What does this mean? I have no clue. It could mean Cheney is expecting no indictments, so there is no need to have a spokesman around, other than one to say "we expected this result all along."
On a related note, Attytood reports its theory that Bush and Cheney are no longer getting along. I'm not sure of that, even though at the time of Katrina, I speculated that Cheney's absence was due to being fed up with Bush. I now think Cheney's health may be a bigger problem. How are Cheney and Libby getting along these days? Any friction there?
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