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Fitzgerald mum on Cheney in leak case
AP/Yahoo ^ | Matt Apuzzo

Posted on 12/14/2006 5:46:53 PM PST by STARWISE

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Thursday that he does not expect any government officials to refuse to testify in the CIA leak trial, but he did not specifically say whether Vice President Dick Cheney or other top White House officials were on his witness list.

Attorneys for Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, meanwhile, told a judge that two unidentified reporters may resist testifying on Libby's behalf in the case. The attorneys predicted the issue would be resolved before trial, however.

Libby is accused of lying to investigators about what he told reporters regarding former CIA operative Valerie Plame. Plame's identity was leaked to reporters around the time that her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, publicly criticized the Bush administration's prewar intelligence on Iraq.

Cheney has said he may be called as a witness. If so, prosecutors could ask how the White House responded to those criticisms. Cheney was upset by Wilson's comments, Fitzgerald has said, and told Libby that Plame worked for the CIA.

That conversation is a key to Fitzgerald's perjury case. Libby testified that he learned about Plame's job from a reporter.

Cheney could also help prosecutors undermine Libby's defense that he was so preoccupied with national security matters, he forgot details about the less-important Plame issue. Prosecutors argue that Plame was a key concern of the vice president, and thus would have been important to Libby.

Sitting presidents, including Clinton and Ford, have testified in criminal cases but presidential historians and separation-of-powers experts said they knew of no vice president who has done so.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cheney; fitzgerald; libby; plame; politicalhackjob; unethicalcase
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Attorneys also said they'd subpoenaed for the tape of Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's interview with former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. Armitage has admitted he discussed Plame's job with Woodward in 2003 but said it was a passing, inadvertent comment. Woodward's tape has been turned over to prosecutors and Libby's attorneys said they expect no objection to their subpoena.
1 posted on 12/14/2006 5:46:54 PM PST by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE

What leak, he knew who did it from the beginning. A total hack job from the start.


2 posted on 12/14/2006 5:47:58 PM PST by driftdiver
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To: onyx; Howlin; Laverne; Fedora; ravingnutter; the Real fifi; nopardons; piasa

Ding!


3 posted on 12/14/2006 5:48:01 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE

"I have no recollection."


4 posted on 12/14/2006 5:50:04 PM PST by Eva
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To: STARWISE

Well, they're starting to dredge up (not Drudge) this pointless crapfest again. We're facing an apocolyptic clash of civilizations and the MSM stooges are still mired in their Beltway circle jerk.


5 posted on 12/14/2006 5:55:16 PM PST by Carl LaFong ("We must protect our phoney-boloney jobs, gentlemen"- Congress - (by way of Governor Le Petomane))
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To: STARWISE

What law was broken again? Oh yeah, it was a perjury trap against a Pubbie.


6 posted on 12/14/2006 5:56:42 PM PST by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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I wonder why Tim Russert wasn't also charged with perjury?

Libby Russert is accused of lying to investigators about what he told reporters what was told to him by Libby regarding former CIA operative Valerie Plame.

There, fixed it.

7 posted on 12/14/2006 6:04:46 PM PST by Hoodat ( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
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To: A Citizen Reporter; AliVeritas; alnick; AmeriBrit; AmericaUnited; arasina; BlessedByLiberty; ...

SCOOTER PING!!!


8 posted on 12/14/2006 6:06:30 PM PST by Howlin
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I guess this will not end, huh?


9 posted on 12/14/2006 6:08:13 PM PST by onyx (Phillip Rivers, LT and the San Diego Chargers! WOO-HOO!)
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To: STARWISE

How much longer will the American Public be paying the bill for this farce?

Fitzgerald should be in jail for fraud.

Maybe he and Nifong of the Duke Rape Case and Ronnie Earle of the Tom Delay Farce should form a partnership.
like Dewey,Dickem and Howe.


10 posted on 12/14/2006 6:08:16 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: STARWISE

This absurd case is still going on? What a waste of money and everybody's time!


11 posted on 12/14/2006 6:30:17 PM PST by StormEye
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To: STARWISE

Thanks for the ping.


12 posted on 12/14/2006 6:39:37 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Howlin

Thanks for the ping.


13 posted on 12/14/2006 6:40:32 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Carl LaFong

First they will go after Cheney, then they will go after Bush.

Last thing the libs want is President Cheney for a year.


14 posted on 12/14/2006 6:40:41 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." Lenin)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Their real goal would be to impeach President Bush and VP Cheney at the same time so that Pelosi could become President.


15 posted on 12/14/2006 6:42:22 PM PST by Hoodat ( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
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To: STARWISE

WHY is this asshat still employed? The "case" is solved. We know who did it. GO HOME!


16 posted on 12/14/2006 6:42:24 PM PST by Doohickey (I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
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To: STARWISE

To me, if Armitage talked to Woodward, then Libby's testimony could be considered immaterial.


17 posted on 12/14/2006 6:51:37 PM PST by Perdogg (I'm Perdogg and I approved this message)
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To: STARWISE

More AP rubbish about Fitzgerald.


18 posted on 12/14/2006 6:55:32 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: STARWISE

Cheney to Fitz: "as I once told Senator Leahy......"


19 posted on 12/14/2006 8:09:09 PM PST by SCHROLL
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To: STARWISE

Geez--were fitzy and nifong college rommies?


20 posted on 12/14/2006 8:19:14 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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