John Dean: Cheney may have given false statements to FBI

There is "a lot of evidence" that Vice President Dick Cheney gave false statements to the FBI during its investigation of the Valerie Plame leak affair, says former White House attorney John Dean.

Dean told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann that Cheney attained "something of a record" by refusing to answer or claiming to not recall the answer to 72 questions posed by the FBI during a May, 2004, interview.

"If you'll recall, former Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman did 150 'I don't recalls' during his three days before the Senate Watergate committee," Dean said. "This is 72 in less than three hours, that's right up there."

The comparison is striking, because Haldeman served 18 months in prison for conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the Watergate scandal.

"There's a lot of evidence that [Cheney] gave a number of false statements to federal officials, which is clearly a federal offense under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, and it could well be obstruction of justice," Dean said on MSNBC's Countdown Monday night.

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Source: The Raw Story

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