Former Vice President Dick Cheney told the FBI that he doesn’t know who leaked the identity of former CIA agent Valerie Plame according to a transcript (pdf) given, by court order, to the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility an Ethics in Washington (CREW). Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, now live in Santa Fe.

CREW wrote of the transcripts:

The transcript reveals that Mr. Cheney – generally credited with razor sharp intellect and recall – demonstrated an astonishing inability to recollect even simple facts much less the numerous conversations others have testified to regarding his involvement in the administration’s efforts to discredit former Ambassador Joe Wilson. Mr. Cheney’s memory frequently failed to improve, even when confronted with his own hand-written notes. The transcript does indicate however, that Mr. Cheney held Mr. Wilson in low regard and called the CIA’s decision to send Mr. Wilson to Niger “amateur-hour.”