Sunday, May 21, 2006

Libby Denies Seeing Cheney's Notes on Newspaper Column

Fitz does not plan on calling Cheney.

Why not?

Could it be because Cheney is a target or subject of his investigation?

Libby Denies Seeing Cheney's Notes on Newspaper Column:

"Lawyers for I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, the indicted former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, said in a court filing late Friday that Libby did not see the notes Cheney inscribed on a key newspaper column criticizing the administration's rationale for invading Iraq until he was shown the annotations in the course of an FBI investigation.

The lawyers raised the issue to cast doubt on a claim by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald in a court filing a week ago that the annotations 'serve both to explain the context of and provide a motive for' Libby's statements and actions that brought about his indictment.

The annotations by Cheney on the opinion column, written by former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, raised the possibility that a report by Wilson questioning Iraqi efforts to buy material in Niger for a nuclear weapon was instigated by Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, whose position at the CIA was classified."

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