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When the FBI questioned Vice President Dick Cheney about his knowledge of the CIA leak affair, the vice president proved to be an irascible and at times uncooperative witness: he repeatedly claimed memory loss on key questions, refused to answer others because they involved “privileged” conversations, and complained that he was “pressed for time.” In the end, he rejected a standard bureau request that he not discuss his testimony with other witnesses in the case. These and other details of Cheney’s May 28, 2004, interview with the FBI are contained in a redacted 28-page report that was released by the Justice Department late Friday afternoon. They contain no bombshells that will change the public’s basic understanding of the leak investigation, which led to the indictment and conviction of Cheney’s top aide, Scooter Libby, on perjury charges. But they do flesh out a portrait of a vice president who made little secret of his disdain for key players in the saga: the CIA, the news media (including NEWSWEEK), and apparently the FBI agents who had been authorized to investigate the matter. “It was amateur hour at the CIA,” Cheney told the FBI when he was questioned about the agency’s decision to dispatch former ambassador Joe Wilson to Niger to look into claims that Saddam Hussein was buying yellowcake uranium (after Cheney had expressed an interest in the subject).

by Daniel D'Addario Poor Tom DeLay. The former House majority leader is hardly the ideal contestant for Dancing With the Stars . One week, he almost dropped his dance partner. Another week, it looked like he had two left feet. And Monday night, neither of his feet worked: he was suffering from two