Insight: US Vice President Cheney will resign during the year

US Vice President Richard (Dick) Cheney, apparently, will resign during the year. This was announced on Tuesday by the conservative political magazine Insight , referring to senior representatives of the Republican Party, ITAR-TASS reports.

According to party leaders, Cheney will put his authority in 2007, a few months after the elections to Congress. They claim that this will be a forced resignation: the vice president has recently become an increasingly clear political obstacle to President George Bush. "

Republicans told Insight that the friction between Bush and Cheney, as well as the employees of their devices are becoming more and more obvious. Among the examples, they cited the fact that the president was not immediately informed of the incident at the beginning of the month, when Cheney wounded his hunting partner .

Observers also consider the upcoming court sessions in the case of the former head of the US Vice President Lewis Libby . In October last year, Libby, who was one of Cheney’s closest proxies, was accused of giving false testimonies under the oath of a large jury.

The charges of Libby were the first significant result of the investigation that has been produced for 2 years, designed to identify which of the Bush administration employees allowed the “leak” in the press named after the TsRA secret agent. As expected, Cheney will have to prove in court his non -involvement in the transfer of such information. However, the accusations themselves can lead to the beginning of the investigation in Congress and even initiating the impeachment process.

“Libby’s case may be fatal than the hunting case,” an InSight source in the Republican Party told. “If passions are heated, then Cheney will have to say that he is leaving for health reasons. But in any case, the president will do everything to delicately solve this problem.”