More Allegations of Libby Lies Revealed

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More Allegations of Libby Lies Revealed
Judge's Report Shows Cheney Aide Is Accused Of Broad Deception

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/03/AR2006020302095_pf.html

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 4, 2006; A03



The special prosecutor in the CIA leak case alleged that Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff was engaged in a broader web of deception than was previously known and repeatedly lied to conceal that he had been a key source for reporters about undercover operative Valerie Plame, according to court records released yesterday.


The court records show that Libby denied to a grand jury that he ever mentioned Plame or her CIA job to then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer or then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller in separate conversations he had with each of them in early July 2003. The records also suggest that Libby did not disclose to investigators that he first spoke to Miller about Plame in June 2003, and that prosecutors learned of the nature of the conversation only when Miller finally testified late in the fall of 2005.



Yesterday, the same panel concluded that because Libby was indicted and now faced public charges, the court no longer had to keep secret many of the details of the grand jury investigation that Tatel analyzed. Dow Jones Inc., parent company of the Wall Street Journal, had petitioned the court to release the eight-page Tatel opinion. Three of the pages were redacted.



According to Tatel's summary of the evidence that Fitzgerald presented in the court's chambers in August 2004, the prosecutor had at least a good circumstantial case on perjury but charging Libby with intentionally leaking classified information was "currently off the table," though it could be "viable" if he gained new evidence.



Tatel's opinion also includes previously unknown details about testimony by Libby and other officials. For example, Libby acknowledged to investigators that Cheney told him in mid-June 2003 about Plame's CIA role and said she helped send her husband on a mission to Niger to determine whether Iraq was seeking nuclear material from the African nation.

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1. and bush is keeping us safer?

By exposing V. Plame and her cover company, Brewster Jennings, a whole operation
that was very effective in stopping real WMDs and interdicting nuclear materials
from the old Soviet Union was rolled up. And people probably died and we are
less safe.

Explain to me how Rove wants gets to play the Terror Card in the elections?

This should be jammed up the ass of every repug who runs on terror and
supports bush. Because that is just a shame.

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2. After watching what's been going on with this lately, I am

convinced that Fitzgerald didn't charge the core crime because his prosecution would have been crippled by "secret evidence" and "national security" claims. Now that the trial is postponed until after the election, I expect an early pardon whether the Dems get back Congress or not. Libby and his lawyer ran out the clock for BushCo, which was their mission. We probably will never know in our lifetimes what really happened.