Identity of Official to Be Kept From Libby

[kpete]

Identity of Official to Be Kept From Libby
By TONI LOCY , 02.24.2006, 07:02 PM


Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, charged with perjury in the CIA leak case, cannot be told the identity of another government official who is said to have divulged a CIA operative's identity to reporters, a federal judge ruled Friday.

At the same time, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said Libby could have copies of notes he took during an 11-month period in 2003 and 2004 while serving as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

The judge also set the stage for a showdown in late April over the defense's plans to subpoena reporters and news organizations for notes and other documents in the leak of Valerie Plame's identity.

During a hearing Friday afternoon, Walton said Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald can keep secret the other government official's identity because that person has not been charged and has a right to privacy.

http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/02/24/ap2552509.html

[annabanana]

1. I find this a bit confusing...

Who are we thinking is the "other"? Is it still Rove?

[Quakerfriend]

2. or Cheney, perhaps?

[Catherine Vincent]

3. It's gotta be Rove!

[emulatorloo]

4. "who does not work at the White House"

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Libby's lawyers and Fitzgerald disagreed over whether the unidentified government official - who does not work at the White House - was referring to Plame or her husband when he said, "Everyone knows," during a taped interview with investigators.

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[emulatorloo]

5. For another thread :250 pages of Cheney office emails turned over to Fitz

Another interesting snippit -- Deserves its own thread!!!!!!


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The defense was told that the White House had recently located and turned over about 250 pages of e-mails from the vice president's office. Fitzgerald, in a letter last month to the defense, had cautioned Libby's lawyers that some e-mails might be missing because the White House's archiving system had failed.

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