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Did Libby Lie?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in The Plame Game

Well, judging from the noise being made by two CIA agents, the answer is yes. This could mean dark days are ahead for Libby.

From the NY Daily News:

WASHINGTON – Two top CIA officials will bolster prosecutors’ charge that Vice President Cheney’s chief aide lied to them, court papers show.

Prosecutors say disgraced Cheney chief of staff Lewis (Scooter) Libby learned CIA spy Valerie Plame’s identity from, among others, agency officials who will be called to testify at his trial for perjury, false statements and obstruction of justice.

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Both CIA officials – including a top architect of the 2003 Iraq invasion – discussed Plame with Libby a month before columnist Robert Novak blew her cover in July 2003, prosecutors charge.

Libby has said journalists told him about Plame – not Cheney or the six witnesses named so far by prosecutors.

We’ll have more as it becomes available..

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One Response to “Did Libby Lie?”

political forum Says:
July 6th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Well, a lot on the right, including practically all the candidates for the GOP Presidential nomination are saying that Libby was treated unfairly. So let’s say that Fleisher, Rove and Armitage, as well as Libby all leaked Plame’s name. Does that make Libby’s crimes less severe?

george

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