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Tue, 23 Jan 2007

Prosecutor: Libby lied repeatedly

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/23222.html

Tue, 23 Jan 2007

Prosecutor: Libby lied repeatedly


WASHINGTON

The former chief of U.S. Vice President ***** Cheney's staff lied over
and over to the FBI about the leak of a CIA agent's identity, a
federal prosecutor said.

I. Lewis Scooter Libby ' s trial on five counts of perjury, making
false statements and obstructing an investigation began Tuesday with
opening statements, The Washington Post reported.

Libby is not charged with actually disclosing Valerie Plame's identity
to reporters.

But the suggestion that Libby and Cheney blew Plame's cover as part of
a political effort to discredit her husband, former Ambassador Joseph
Wilson, is the subtext of the trial.

"How could we reach a point where the chief of staff for the vice
president was repeatedly lying to federal investigators?"
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald asked the jury.

"That's what this case is all about."

Fitzgerald said that Libby deliberately lied when he told
investigators he learned that Plame was a CIA agent from Tim Russert
of NBC and then gossiped about it to other reporters.

He said Cheney was Libby's actual source of information about Plame.

Theodore Wells, Libby's lawyer, said his client made honest mistakes
while trying to give his best good-faith recollection.

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The charge should be treason.

Harry