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Libby Defense Plans To Call Top Journalists to the Stand
By RUSSELL BERMAN
WASHINGTON Lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. will try to use some of the country's top journalists to rebut the potentially damaging testimony of their colleagues when Mr. Libby begins his defense next week against charges of perjury and obstruction of...
Journalist Russert Contradicts Libby's Testimony
By RUSSELL BERMAN
WASHINGTON The reputation of one of America's most prominent journalists, Tim Russert of NBC News, came under fire yesterday as a lawyer for I. Lewis Libby Jr. sought to cast doubt on Mr. Russert's account of a conversation with the former vice...
Libby Defense May Decline To Call Cheney to the Stand
By JOSH GERSTEIN
Lawyers defending Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., at his ongoing obstruction-of-justice trial in Washington are raising fresh doubts about whether the vice president and his one-time top aide will be called as...
LIbby's Memory At Issue
By MATT APUZZO
WASHINGTON (AP) - On grand jury audiotapes played at his trial on Tuesday, former White House aide I. Lewis Libby said he learned about a CIA officer from Vice President Dick Cheney, forgot it, then learned it again from NBC News reporter Tim Russert...
FBI Agent Lacks Notes To Back Up Her Story
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON An FBI agent acknowledged yesterday that some of her testimony could not be backed up by notes, an admission that attorneys for I. Lewis Libby Jr. seized on in an effort to undercut perjury and obstruction charges.
Agent Deborah Bond...
Prosecution Plays Audiotapes Of Libby's Grand Jury Testimony
By PETE YOST
WASHINGTON Prosecutors at the CIA leak trial yesterday started playing audiotapes of I. Lewis Libby's grand jury testimony, a key piece of evidence against Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff.
It was the first time that the trial jurors...
FBI Agent: Libby, Cheney May Have Discussed Plame
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
WASHINGTON A former vice presidential aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, acknowledged that he may have discussed with Vice President Cheney whether to tell reporters that a prominent war critic's wife worked at the CIA, an FBI agent testified yesterday...
Time Reporter Cooper Says Libby Confirmed Plame's Identity
By RUSSELL BERMAN
WASHINGTON A former reporter for Time magazine testified that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. provided confirmation to him that the wife of a Bush administration critic worked for the CIA, but only after the reporter first learned of her identity from...
Libby Team Attacks Reporter On Date of Plame Disclosure
By RUSSELL BERMAN
WASHINGTON Targeting a lengthy memory lapse, lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. are attacking the credibility of a former New York Times reporter who testified yesterday that the one-time vice presidential aide told her the identity of a CIA...
Fleischer Says Libby Disclosed CIA Officer's Identity Over Lunch
By RUSSELL BERMAN
WASHINGTON Saying it was "hush-hush" and "on the QT," I. Lewis Libby Jr. disclosed the identity of a CIA officer to the then White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, over lunch in July 2003, Mr. Fleischer testified yesterday.
The former chief of...
Trial Exposes Scramble Over Botched Bush Speech
By JOSH GERSTEIN
WASHINGTON Testimony at the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., who served as Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, is laying bare how the White House scrambled to contain the damage after the credibility of a claim that President Bush made about Iraq's...
CIA Staffer Says He Warned Cheney, Libby of Leak's Danger
By JOSH GERSTEIN
WASHINGTON A CIA employee who gave regular intelligence briefings to Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., testified yesterday that shortly after the leak of a CIA operative's identity, the pair was given a stark warning...
Libby Defense Points Finger At Karl Rove
By JOSH GERSTEIN
WASHINGTON The long-awaited obstruction-of-justice trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., who served as Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, opened with the defense suggesting that the prosecution is an outgrowth of an effort in the White House to protect...
Jury in Libby Case Will Include Four Critics of Bush's White House
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
WASHINGTON A jury that includes four critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policies was seated yesterday to try former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on charges of lying about what he told reporters about the wife of a prominent war...
Libby Lawyers Spar Over Jurors' Political Views
By MATT APUZZO
WASHINGTON Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald sparred with defense attorneys yesterday over several potential jurors and their opinions of the Bush administration, a debate that further slowed jury selection in the CIA leak case.
U.S. District...
Libby Prosecutor Slows the Pace
Opening Statements Postponed
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
WASHINGTON (AP) - The prosecutor took a more aggressive stance and jury selection slowed so much in the CIA leak trial Thursday that the judge postponed opening statements until next Tuesday.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald successfully...
Ex-Reporter May End Up On Libby Jury
By MATT APUZZO
WASHINGTON A former Washington Post reporter who wrote a book on spying and lived near someone who could be a key witness in the case was approved as a potential juror in the CIA leak case yesterday. The man's acceptance into the jury pool showed...
Libby Case Puts Bush on Trial On First Day
By RUSSELL BERMAN
WASHINGTON I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby sat in the courtroom on the opening day of his trial on federal perjury charges, but it was the credibility of his former boss, Vice President Cheney, and the Bush administration that drew the heaviest scrutiny as...
All Star Game' Taking Shape in Libby's Trial
By JOSH GERSTEIN
The much-anticipated trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby begins tomorrow in Washington. What follows is a comprehensive spectator's guide to a legal drama that involves the White House, the CIA, and the press.
Who is the defendant?
I. Lewis Libby Jr.,...
Curtain's Up As Libby Is Set for Trial
By JOSH GERSTEIN
The trial set to begin in Washington next week of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., will be the first major showdown between two competing narratives about the Bush administration's tactics in responding to critics of...
Text of a Conversation between Woodward and Armitage Recorded June 13, 2003
WOODWARD: What's Scowcroft up to?
ARMITAGE: [expletive deleted] Scowcroft is looking into the yellowcake thing.
W: Oh yeah?
A: As the PFIAB.
W: Yeah. What happened there?
A: They're back together. [coughs] They knew with yellowcake, the CIA is...
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Audio Recordings
Who's Who
DAVID ADDINGTON - Former counsel to the vice president and currently his chief of staff. Allegedly was asked by Libby what records the CIA would have if an employee's spouse was sent overseas.
RICHARD CHENEY - Vice President, expected to possibly testify on Libby's behalf, telling jurors that Libby was so preoccupied with national security matters that Wilson and his wife were barely on his radar, if at all.
MATTHEW COOPER - Prosecutors say that this Time Magazine reporter received confirmation from Libby that Wilson's wife was a CIA employee.
ARI FLEISCHER - former White House Press Secretary. Prosecutors charge Libby disclosed to him that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.
ROBERT GRENIER - Veteran CIA official, headed office that helped plan invasion of Iraq. Believed to be the person who told Libby that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.
MARC GROSSMAN - Former under secretary of state, allegedly the second person to tell Libby on June 12, 2003, that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA and had helped arrange his trip.
BILL HARLOW - CIA spokesman believed to be the government official who told Cathie Martin about Wilson's wife.
LEWIS LIBBY - Former chief of staff to the vice president, plans to testify on his own behalf and is expected to say that he did not lie to the FBI or grand jury; that he was so focused on national security issues, he simply forgot less important details about other matters.
CATHIE MARTIN - Public affairs assistant to the vice president, allegedly told Libby that she learned from another government official that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA.
JUDITH MILLER - Libby allegedly told this former New York Times reporter that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Spent 85 days in jail for refusing to testify before the grand jury.
COLIN POWELL - Former Secretary of State who could be called by defense to discuss his alleged comment that everyone knew Wilson's wife was a CIA employee.
TIM RUSSERT - NBC News Washington bureau chief. Libby claims he first about Wilson's wife from him.
CRAIG SCHMALL - A CIA employee with whom Libby is believed to have discussed Wilson and Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame.
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A Confused Judge
Editorial of The New York Sun
Judge Walton's latest ruling in the I. Lewis Libby case is so confused and the judge admits it that the judge provides the perfect opportunity for Mr. Bush simply to go ahead and issue a full pardon to the former White House lawyer. The question...
Judge Disputes Bush's Rationale for Libby's Commutation
By JOSH GERSTEIN
High-level sniping over the commutation President Bush gave to a former White House aide, I. Lewis Libby Jr., broke out in earnest yesterday, as the judge who sentenced Libby openly disputed Mr. Bush's stated rationale and the president publicly...
Fitzgerald May Testify on Prosecution of Libby Case, Judiciary Chairman Says
By JOHN HUGHES
U.S. attorney Fitzgerald may be called to testify about his prosecution of a former vice presidential aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Senator Leahy of Vermont said.
Mr. Leahy, the Judiciary Committee chairman, and Senator Specter, the ranking...
Spokesman Snow Chides Clintons for Remarks on Libby
By TERENCE HUNT
WASHINGTON The White House yesterday made fun of President Clinton and his wife, Senator Clinton, for criticizing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
"I don't know what Arkansan is for...
Lawyers Make Final Plea To Save Libby From Jail
By JOSH GERSTEIN
Lawyers for a former White House aide facing 2 1/2 years in prison, I. Lewis Libby Jr., have made their final written plea to a federal appeals court panel, which could save him from having to begin his sentence in the coming weeks.
In a brief made...
Pardoning Libby
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL, Jr.
Currently I find myself in unusual company, and I am always so careful about the company I keep. Nonetheless, here I am arguing on the same side as Washington Post columnist, Richard Cohen, and ritualistic liberal, Christopher Hitchens. At least Mr....
Bush Will Need His Courage
By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.
Talk about a pardon for Lewis Libby is food for thought. Partisans are grateful that there is time, even if not much time, to think, pending the appeals that are under way challenging the conviction at a technical level.
There isn't much to hope for...
Establishment Who's Who Fails To Rescue Libby
By JOSH GERSTEIN
The public case against Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, built by federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, is that his lying to government investigators put both national security and the rule of law at risk.
The arguments helped...
Libby Faces Two-and-a-Half Year Prison Sentence
By RUSSELL BERMAN
WASHINGTON Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., faces two-and-a-half years in prison as punishment for lying to a grand jury and the FBI during an inquiry into the leaked identity of a CIA officer.
Telling Libby he had...
Libby Lawyers Request He Be Spared Prison Term
By JOSH GERSTEIN
Lawyers for a former White House official convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury, I. Lewis Libby Jr., are asking that he be sentenced to probation and spared a prison term.
"It is not necessary to incarcerate Mr. Libby to promote respect for...
Deadline Looms for Libby Sentence Recommendations
By JOSH GERSTEIN
Prosecutors and defense lawyers for a former White House aide, I. Lewis Libby Jr., face a deadline Friday to give their final recommendations on the sentence he should receive for his conviction on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, and lying...
Hollywood Heroes As Liars
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL JR.
Lewis Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, has been found I. guilty of lying and faces many years in prison. Joseph C. Wilson IV, his tormentor, has been found guilty of lying, and out in Hollywood they are going to make a movie of...
The Lost Scandal in Libby's Trial
By ROBERT NOVAK
A Washington journalist on the Scooter Libby jury, Denis Collins, described sentiments in the jury room reflecting those in the Senate Democratic cloakroom: "It was said a number of times.
Where's Rove? Where are these other guys?" Besides...
The Cost of Libby
Editorial of The New York Sun
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is a man we've known personally since the 1980s. We first met him in Europe, when he was representing the commodities trader Marc Rich. We came to admire him then for his intelligence, his legal skills, his integrity, and his...
Libby Question Turns to Pardon
His Lawyers Vow Appeal of Verdict
By JOSH GERSTEIN
The conviction of I. Lewis Libby Jr., who served as chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, on felony obstruction-of-justice, perjury, and false statement charges is putting President Bush on the political spot, as he faces both increasing demands to...
After the Verdict
By JOHN COFFEE
So what does "Scooter" Libby 's conviction really mean?
Lawyers watch criminal trials the way basketball fanatics watch playoff games during March Madness it is a sporting event for them albeit a blood sport to be sure. They focus obsessively on...
Libby Jury's Query Puzzles Courtroom
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
WASHINGTON The first question from jurors at the perjury trial of ex-White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby prompted a lot of head-scratching yesterday but shed little light on their progress.
The jury, now down to seven women and four men,...
Libby Juror Dismissed From Case
By JOSH GERSTEIN
An 11-member jury is deliberating the fate of I. Lewis Libby Jr. after the judge removed one of the jurors yesterday because of information she learned out of court about the case against the former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney.
Judge...
Bush Is Chided by Prosecutor in Libby Case
By JOSH GERSTEIN
WASHINGTON The special prosecutor in the CIA leak case, Patrick Fitzgerald, is suggesting in his strongest terms yet that Vice President Cheney was involved in an effort to unmask a CIA operative married to an administration critic.
Mr....
Libby Trial Dodges The Truth
By JOSH GERSTEIN
"This is supposed to be about finding the truth."
That audacious declaration came from Judge Reggie Walton last week at the perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., who served as Vice President Cheney's top aide between 2001...
In Leak Case, Jurors Given Plethora of Reasons To Acquit Libby
By JOSH GERSTEIN
WASHINGTON If jurors at the perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. are looking for reasons to acquit the former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, they have a lot to choose from.
Mr. Libby 's defense, led by Theodore...
Defense Rests Its Case in Trial of Former White House Aide Libby
By JOSH GERSTEIN
WASHINGTON The defense at the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. rested its case yesterday after the judge and attorneys sparred over the legal impact of the former White House aide's decision not to take the witness stand.
At a midday session out of...
Libby Team Reverses Its Course
Defendant, Vice President Will Not Take the Stand
By JOSH GERSTEIN
WASHINGTON In a major reversal, defense lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. now intend to close their case without testimony from the former White House aide or his onetime boss, Vice President Cheney.
The decisions not to put Messrs. Libby and Cheney...
Libby's Jury Hears Rant Of Diplomat
By JOSH GERSTEIN
WASHINGTON The jury in the trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., who served as Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, has heard powerful evidence that two other officials were responsible for disclosing the identity of a CIA officer, Valerie Plame.
Over a...
Chronology of Events
2001
Italian government shares with US and British intelligence documents purporting to show Iraqi officials attempt to obtain yellowcake from Niger.
2002
February - The CIA, responding to a request for information from Vice-President Cheney, dispatches Joseph Wilson to Niger to investigate.
March 9 - CIA sends memo to White House summarizing Wilson's conclusions after eight-day trip, including his belief documents are "bogus."
2003
January 23 - National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, in an op-ed piece, charges Iraq has failed to account for their efforts to get uranium from abroad.
January 28 - President Bush's State of the Union address contains the 14 words: "The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
July 6 - Wilson writes op-ed piece disclosing he went to Niger and accuses Administration of using "twisted" intelligence to "exaggerate" Iraqi threat.
July 7 - White House concedes 14 words should not have been in the State of the Union Address. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Colin Powell heads to Africa. On the plane he is given memo on Wilson's trip that reveals Wilson's wife works for the CIA.
July 8 - Karl Rove discusses Wilson's trip with columnist Robert Novak
July 11 - Karl Rove has similar conversation with Matthew Cooper of Time Magazine.
July 14 - Novak writes column identifying Wilson's wife as an "agency operative on weapons of mass destruction" and adds: "two senior administration officials told me that his wife suggested sending Wilson to Niger to investigate."
July 17 - Cooper writes piece for Time Magazine, "A War on Wilson" discussing White House attempts to discredit Wilson.
Late September - Justice Department informs the White House it has opened an investigation into whether any laws were broken when Valerie Wilson's name was disclosed.
October - White House spokesman Scott McClellan is asked whether Rove or other White House officials discussed Plame with reporters. He responds: "Those individuals assured me they were not involved in this."
2004
June 10 - President Bush, asked if he stands by his pledge "to fire anyone found" to have disclosed Plame's name, answers "Yes."
2005
July 6 - New York Times reporter Judith Miller jailed for refusing to testify before the grand jury.
September 29 - Miller released from prison.
September 30 - Miller testifies before the grand jury.
October 28 - Libby indicted on obstruction and perjury charges and resigns as Cheney's Chief of Staff.
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