Inured to the outrages

Yesterday, Murray Waas published an article saying that Scooter Libby and V.P. Cheney were personally informed that the uranium from Niger story was false before they began trying to slime Joe Wilson for saying that. I didn't comment at the time. These days, no matter how outrageous the story about the Thuglicans, you've heard so much that you just fluff it off as more of the same. However, for "the record," here's the story:

Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation of Niger, according to government records and interviews with current and former officials. The new CIA assessment came just as Libby and other senior administration officials were embarking on an effort to discredit an administration critic who had also been saying that the allegations were untrue.