Cheney Withheld Information from a Congressional Investigation

The National Journal reports that Vice President Cheney and his Chief of Staff -- Lewis "Scooter" Libby -- withheld information from the Senate Intelligence Committee last year.

The VP and his aide acted against the advice of White House advisors and lawyers.

The Committee was investigating pre-war intel failures that wrongly concluded Iraq had WMDs.

Mr Libby wrote some of the documents withheld from the Committee. Those documents were used to draft then Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the UN (left). The speech was supposed to present the US case for war against Iraq.

The evidence Mr Powell put forward in that speech has since been largely discredited. And Mr Powell has since said the speech was "the lowest point" of his life. (National Journal)