Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Libby Trial: Day Seven

WaPo: Former CIA Official Testifies Against Libby:
"A high-ranking former CIA official testified today that he told I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in June 2003 that the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV worked for the CIA, after an "aggrieved" Libby called seeking information about Wilson's CIA-sponsored trip to Africa.

Robert L. Grenier, a former CIA associate deputy director, became the second prosecution witness at Libby's perjury trial to say he had disclosed informationabout CIA officer Valerie Plame to Libby weeks before Libby claims he learned her identity from a journalist.

The timing is central to government charges that Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Cheney, lied to FBI agents and a grand jury investigating how Plame's name was leaked to the press. Libby has pleaded not guilty, contending he forgot some conversations with journalists in the crush of his work on national security issues...."

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