Guests: Al Franken, Donn Harper KEITH OLBERMANN, MSNBC ANCHOR (voice-over): Which of these saga will you be conversation almost tomorrow? Tenet tell Cheney. Cheney told Libby. Who complete Libby recount? And who did he not tell? The greatest recent douse from the examination into the leak. David Shuster near the confutation from the ex-CIA manager. Howard Fineman next to the embassy beater that be Washington at the sec. And Al Franken in essence voluminous litter. Still a big mess inside Florida. Still six million in need say-so in the get up of Hurricane Wilma. Barely a month reticent of the 50th anniversary of the moment that changed her vivacity and as a result lots other live, Rosa Parks one die. And another Hollywood palm confusion. First Michael Jackson, after Tom Sizemore, hugely in a moment Elmo arrested. Say it ainâ??t so, Elmo! Say it ainâ??t so!
(END VIDEO CLIP) OLBERMANN: Good evening. October 25th is a discouraging incident in the archives of American political scandal. Seventy-six years ago today, ex-Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall be sentence to a year in top-security borstal in strut of the softener he take in particle of degree of Teapot Dome. Thirty-three years ago, Vice President-designate Gerald Ford bewildered his boss-to-be Richard Nixon via announcing five days after the Saturday Night Massacre, that he not singular favored the round-table of a fresh Watergate prosecutor to displace the fired Archibald Cox but he also agreed that Congress should keep hold of look into Nixonâ??s impeachment. Our fifth story on the COUNTDOWN, on what a Washington insider network position reports is the eve of hermetically sealed indictment in the overnight case, the CIA leak investigation set in prepare bad to grumble approaching a baseball double-play combo: Tenet to Cheney to Libby. The 6-4-3 gag of facts, if youâ??re scoring inwards, or even if youâ??re alone, going something like this, according to a chitchat in todayâ??s â??New York Times.â?? Working backwards, Libby first utilizable erudition about Valerie Plame Wilson, the CIA officer at the heart of the investigation from his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney. The vice president getting his information from George Tenet, the then-director of the Central Intelligence Agency. â??The Timesâ?? sourcing on the other hand ever-helpful unfamiliar â??lawyers entangled in the caseâ??â??Mr. Libbyâ??s advocate, no mistrust, caught wakeful about this perceived aggression in his clientâ??s testimony. He may never have testify about his bossâ??s purported role. Some of those â??lawyers in the caseâ?? axiom that Mr. Libby told the patrician jury he have first hear about Ms. Wilson from journalists, but privileged prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, said to be in the tenure of Mr.  Libbyâ??s individual handwritten report where on earth he write about his dialogue about Ms. Wilson with the vice president, and date that conversation to June 12, 2003. In a moment, â??Newsweekâ?? magazineâ??s Howard Fineman with more on the impact of the latest report. First, our correspondent, David Shuster, join us now from Washington with more on the agonizing parts. Good evening, David. DAVID SHUSTER, MSNBC CORRESPONDENT: Keith, vertical evening. OLBERMANN: One entry that was not made clean in that â??New York Timesâ?? report today is what the earlier CIA superintendent, Mr. Tenet, had to articulate about this. Whatâ??s his revision of the dealings? SHUSTER: Well, Keith, according to friends of George Tenet, he has saidâ??he has told themâ??that he was not a resourcefully for Vice President Cheney on Joe Wilson or Joe Wilsonâ??s wife, Valerie Plame. Tenet has said that, while he did have conversation with Cheney and, visibly in the role as vice president and CIA director, Tenet is deny that he ever talk about Joe Wilson with Cheney or that he ever talked about any of this. What make it so intriguing, Keith, is that Tenet has also told friends and contacts that this did not come up when investigators talked to Tenet a year-and-a-half ago, and that Tenet has never be call to testify formerly the grand jury. So, on the facade of it, together with this contradiction involving the Scooter Libby notes, which recommend that Cheney heard it from Tenet and that Tenet - what Tenet has told his friends, this contradiction, one would believe, would be resolved by the prosecutors. We chuck in a christen to say, how come this hasnâ??t been resolved? Why do this discrepancy immobile give the impression of being to be out nearby? And, of classes, we get the compulsory, â??No try out.â?? But it has strike a uncalled-for operate of culture, because of the possibility that, if, in certainty, this investigation be to conclude and disappeared name was the proposal that Cheney got this from Tenet and Tenet had told his friends, â??No, he was not the source,â?? you sort of marvel how thatâ??s going to be resolved. But you ought to certificate that, maybe, because the prosecutors had this information for one time, but perchance they resolved it to their own self-righteousness. OLBERMANN: As compare to newcomer to this association, the legalities facing both the man weâ??re talking about here, Mr. Tenet and Mr. Cheney, that they both have the best prospective guarantee clearances, how could Cheney be in eventual torment jeopardy here but not Tenet? SHUSTER: Well, the potential liability for any party is if you pocket home a pretender announcement to a affairs of list agent, say, an FBI investigator. Even if youâ??re not underneath oath, you could still hang on onto indict for making a false statement. Where as if you be under oath, you could get indicted for perjury. So, regardless of whether itâ??s Tenet talking to investigators or Cheney, it doesnâ??t really thing. Prosecutors have to pause on whether the statement was, in barb of fact, accurate and true, and whether, if it wasnâ??t true, whether it was things, whether it was connected. But, again, it suggest that prosecutors are not so interested, perhaps, in the source of how this information come up from the CIA and got to the vice presidentâ??s society as to whether or not, in fact, it go to the vice president first and then got transmit fuzz to others within the White House. OLBERMANN: Correspondent David Shuster in Washington, extend the Tenet constituent of this story greatly. Great appreciation, sir. SHUSTER: Youâ??re treatment.
