Libby Left Out Some Facts In Interviews, FBI Agent Says

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One of the FBI agents who interviewed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby during the CIA leak investigation testified yesterday that the vice president's then-chief of staff did not acknowledge disclosing the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame to reporters, asserting that he was surprised when another journalist later told him about her.

FBI agent Deborah S. Bond also testified that Libby said he came across a handwritten note he had made during a phone conversation with Vice President Cheney as he was preparing to be interviewed by investigators in the fall of 2003. The note made it clear that, shortly before June 12, 2003, Cheney had told him Plame worked at the CIA's counterproliferation division and was married to an outspoken critic of the Iraq war.

Libby's conversation with Cheney took place nearly a month before Libby telephoned Tim Russert, NBC's Washington bureau chief. According to Bond, Libby maintained that, during that call, Russert mentioned that "all the reporters" knew that the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV worked at the CIA. Libby told the investigators that "it was as if it was the first time he heard it," Bond said.

Coming on the seventh day of testimony in Libby's perjury trial, Bond's description of the FBI's two interviews with Libby in his White House office gave jurors their first account of what the prosecution alleges were lies that Cheney's former top aide told investigators to obscure his role in spreading classified information.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020100913.html

[Ilsa]

1. I hope Scooter Libby's reunion with other Bush* Admin officials

comes in the yard of the federal prison he'll be serving time in.

[twylatharp]

2. Time to get rid of these Russert types

who do the bidding of these criminals and no one questions it.