FBI Agent: Libby said first heard Plame name from Cheney

[Tuesday_Morning]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003540604

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After a long day or legal wrangling and no witnesses, an FBI agent took the stand shortly before 3 p.m. She is Deborah Bond, a 19-year veteran, called into the probe of who may have leaked name of classified agent.

She described the bureau's interview with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Oct. 14, 2003. Asked where he first learned of Ambassador Joe Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, he had told the FBI then -- from the vice president, on or about June 12 that year, in a telephone conversation.

Vice President Cheney had also said that she worked in "CP" or counter-proliferation at the agency. How did Cheney know this? From someone at the CIA -- possibly director George Tenet, but Libby wasn't sure.

How to explain Libby originally claiming he had first heard about Wilson's wife from NBC's Tim Russert in July? He had simply forgotten he had actually heard it from the vice president a month or more earlier. But Libby's notes, produced by prosecutors during this testimony, did show notations from June 12 regarding Wilson's wife. And Libby later confirmed this in a second FBI interview.

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[LSparkle]

1. This trial is the "gift that keeps on giving"

Every day there's another DELICIOUS morsel coming out of the Prettyman Courthouse. Tim Russert hates Chris Matthews, Bush asked Libby to stick his head in the meat grinder, Libby the sacrificial lamb for KKKarl ... Good thing this isn't being televised because I wouldn't get anything done if it were!

[Ilsa]

2. That's what my husband said.

Every day that this drags on is another day that the Administration looks like spiteful traitors and assholes, not really interested in US security since they were interested in outing a CP CIA NOC.

[twylatharp]

3. and Cheney got it from the President ?(or "the guy")

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4102

[emulatorloo]

4. kick and rec n/t (because this need to be seen by all DU)