Cheney Says He Might Testify in Leak Case

Washington Post ^ | June 23, 2006

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WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday he might have to testify in the CIA leak trial of his former chief of staff.

Cheney made the comment in a CNN interview, following last month's suggestion by prosecutors that the vice president would be a logical witness in the case of I. Lewis Libby, who is accused of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI.

Libby is "one of the finest men I've ever known," Cheney said, then declined further comment. "I may be called as a witness."

Cheney's state of mind is directly relevant to whether Libby lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury about how Libby learned CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity and what he later told reporters, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has said in recently filed court papers.

Libby "shared the interests of his superior and was subject to his direction," the prosecutor wrote.

Fitzgerald has revealed that Cheney was upset because Plame's husband _ former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson _ had accused the Bush administration of manipulating prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat from weapons of mass destruction.

[AmericaUnited]

Cheney is totally unflappable and would make FitzyBoy do the squirming.

[GretchenM]

FYI

[Erasmus]

I can just hear him saying "Pleez, massa Fitz, don' throw me in dat briar patch!"

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Oh, yeah...Cheney is shakin' in his boots-NOT!

[Coldwater Creek]

If Cheney knows anything that will help Libby, he should have volunteered long ago.

[Caipirabob]

Some one please leak something about a Fitzmas "Cheney Indictment" I want to watch more Dim heads explode when it falls apart!

[joe fonebone]

ya know, this waste of the taxpayers money on nothing has gone on long enough..........now the vice president of the united states has to testify about something that was not a crime in the first place. He has serious duties running this country, and to pull him from his duties to set him up for a "Roving" is just absurd.....someone investigate HIM (fitz).

[RonnG]

What "leak case"? The Democrat run press still wants the public to think that this is still all about some "leak" when the prosecutor found no such thing.

[Just A Nobody]

this waste of the taxpayers money on nothing has gone on long enough

I have been saying this for nearly a year! No "leak" = No "case" = stop spending my money. Amazing more FReepers are not saying the same thing.

[Suzy Quzy]

Cheney is the BEST!!!

[Mo1]

ping

[Carling]

If Cheney knows anything that will help Libby, he should have volunteered long ago.

One of the dumbest statements I've seen here. Not big on the legal doodads, eh?

[Coldwater Creek]

Good Morning to you too! Have a nice day.