No more Cheney talk. What happened to the Plame e-mails that might implicate Dick Cheney? Oh damn this is about Cheney too!

Sources close to the investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson have revealed this week that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not turned over emails to the special prosecutor's office that may incriminate Vice President Dick Cheney, his aides, and other White House officials who allegedly played an active role in unmasking Plame Wilson's identity to reporters.

Moreover, these sources said that, in early 2004, Cheney was interviewed by federal prosecutors investigating the Plame Wilson leak and testified that neither he nor any of his senior aides were involved in unmasking her undercover CIA status to reporters and that no one in the vice president's office had attempted to discredit her husband, a vocal critic of the administration's pre-war Iraq intelligence. Cheney did not testify under oath or under penalty of perjury when he was interviewed by federal prosecutors.

The emails Gonzales is said to be withholding contained references to Valerie Plame Wilson's identity and CIA status and developments related to the inability to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Moreover, according to sources, the emails contained suggestions by the officials on how the White House should respond to what it believed were increasingly destructive comments Joseph Wilson had been making about the administration's pre-war Iraq intelligence.

Gonzales, who at the time of the leak was the White House counsel, spent two weeks with other White House attorneys screening emails turned over to his office by roughly 2,000 staffers following a deadline imposed by the White House in 2003. The sources said Gonzales told Fitzgerald more than a year ago that he did not intend to turn over the emails to his office, because they contained classified intelligence information about Iraq in addition to minor references to Plame Wilson, the sources said.

More stonewalling from this administration? Gee what a surprise!

What would be classified "Top Secret" in internal e-mails between Cheney and his staff? What could he possibly reveal that is not already known by the prosecutor and the American people?

• We know that Africa did not sell yellowcake to Saddam.
• We know that Joe Wilson wrote exactly that in his opinion piece.
• We know that the White House wanted him to stop talking while they were trying to convince the Congress that Saddam was dangerous.
• We know that the White House outed Valerie Plame in an effort to undermine the credibility of Joe Wilson.
• We know that Saddam did not, in fact, have any nuclear capabilities.
• We know that Joe Wilson turned out to be absolutely correct.

Where is the room for any state secrets that we don't already know? Isn't it much more likely that what they are truly trying to keep secret is that Dick Cheney knew all along that there was no sale of yellowcake between Africa and Saddam and that Cheney does not want to be outed as a liar. Well good news on that front too Dick. We already assume that you are a liar. So stop being so fucking evasive!