And the trail leads right to the top....
"Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff told prosecutors that Mr. Cheney had informed him 'in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion' in mid-June 2003 about the identity of the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak case, according to a formerly secret legal opinion, parts of which were made public on Friday."
Photo credit: (David Y. Lee for The New York Times) I. Lewis Libby Jr., former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, leaving a federal court in Washington Friday with Theodore V. Wells Jr., his lawyer. Jury selection in the case will begin next January.
Read all about it:
• More Allegations of Libby Lies Revealed- Washington Post• New Details Revealed on C.I.A. Leak Case - New York Times
• Fitzgerald Eyes Plame-Niger Conspiracy - Jason Leopold
• NATIONAL JOURNAL: Iraq, Niger, And The CIA by Murray Waas
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