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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Captain Compassion" |
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22 Sep 2006 07:08:09 PM |
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Libby Plans to Testify in CIA Leak Trial |
Libby Plans to Testify in CIA Leak Trial
Sep 22 6:45 PM US/Eastern
By MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
Vice President ***** Cheney's former chief of staff plans to take the
stand at his upcoming trial to tell jurors that he never lied to
investigators in the CIA leak case, defense attorneys said Friday.
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is charged with perjury, obstruction and
lying to the FBI about his conversations in 2003 with reporters
regarding Valerie Plame's CIA job.
Prosecutors say Libby is trying to torpedo the criminal case by
demanding the use of classified information that is too sensitive to
be released at trial. It's a tactic known as "graymail" and the goal
is to get a case dismissed.
Libby plans to testify about President Bush's daily terrorism
briefings and other classified information to persuade jurors that he
had more important things on his mind at the time and didn't remember
his discussions with reporters, attorneys said in court papers filed
Friday evening.
"Mr. Libby must be able to discuss classified information to give the
jury an accurate picture of his state of mind during the relevant time
period and to show the jury that any errors he made in his statements
and testimony were the product of confusion, mistake and faulty memory
rather than deliberate misrepresentations," defense attorneys wrote.
The documents were filed as part of Libby's bid to use classified
information at his trial in January. Prosecutors oppose the use of
many documents, saying sensitive government secrets will get out.
Plame believes her CIA status was revealed as retribution for her
husband's accusation that the Bush administration had twisted prewar
intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat. Plame's husband, former
ambassador Joseph Wilson, discounted reports that the regime of Saddam
Hussein had an agreement with the African nation of Niger to buy
uranium yellowcake as part of a nuclear weapons program.
Documents regarding Wilson's trip to Niger are among those Libby wants
to use at trial, attorneys wrote.
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