Posted on 01/30/2007 2:22:51 PM PST by woofie
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reporter Judith Miller testified Tuesday that former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby identified a CIA operative to her on two occasions on dates earlier than he has told investigators he first heard the name from another reporter. Miller, the former New York Times reporter who spent 85 days in jail trying to avoid revealing these conversations, said Libby identified the wife of a prominent Iraq war critic as a CIA employee in face-to- face meetings on June 23 and July 8, 2003.
Libby, then Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, told the FBI and a grand jury that he thought he was hearing Valerie Plame's CIA job for the first time from NBC's Tim Russert on July 10, 2003.
Five government officials, including ex-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, also have testified they discussed Plame and her CIA job with Libby before July 10.
Earlier Tuesday, the jury saw notes Libby took on or about June 12 that indicated Cheney himself told Libby then that the war critic's wife worked at the CIA.
The discrepancy over when Libby learned about Plame is a major element in the charges on which he is being tried. He is not accused of leaking her name but rather of perjury and obstruction of the investigation into how her name leaked. Libby now says his memory failed him when he spoke with Russert and other reporters.
Miller became a heroine to many press groups when she went to jail rather discuss conversations with a source whose identity she had agreed not reveal. Her appearance at the trial filled the courtroom seats for the first time and drew several retired reporters.
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@#$%ing MSM
Libby has a "story"
While the opposing has testimony.
The goal here is to get Cheney, not Libby.
Nobody identified a CIA OPERATIVE!
Over here!
This is so sick. The prosecutor had the job of investigating and determining whether a crime had been committed and if so, who leaked the name of a supposedly covert agent of the CIA.
1. She wasn't covert.
2. The prosecutor knew the name of the leaker two days after he got the job.......hint: It wasn't Libby, yet the man who leaked has never been under investigation.
3. The prosecutor, knowing there was no crime, continued to press administration figures, including Libby.
4. This prosecutor is simply a fraud, playing to the liberal elites in Washington who believe that not being a Democrat is a crime.
In the meantime, a real felon, Sandy Berger, goes untouched.......
Sick.
Hell hath no fury like a woman jailed.
The issue in Libby's case is whether he lied to investigators and the Grand Jury. All the other stuff surrounding the case is probably irrelevant.
There's gonna be some overtime for the spittle-mopping crew over at the "Hardball" set again
I agree. They have pretty much committed no to formally attempt indict Cheney it doesn't mean they won't drag his name through the mud though.
R-U-S-S-E-R-T
I remember it as you describe it. She was anything but a heroine to the MSM.
Went to a kids basketball game last night. Grandpa of one of the players was a referee. One team ran, literally, 9-15 feet with the ball on every possession before dribbling or passing. Never a call for travelling. Other team was called frequently for "moving off the pivot foot".
This is so much like a rigged game. Berman shreds documents relating to the most potentially explosive aspects of our foreign policy, nobody cares.
Tell me again, somebody, why Ditz didn't resign in disgrace, dropping all charges, when it was revealed he knew who the leaker was BEFORE HE SPENT MILLIONS "INVESTIGATING" this non crime ?
BTW this administration pushed for leniency. Now that's sick.
That was my understanding as well.
Miller was friends also with that scientist in Briton that died under mysterious circumstances. Name eludes me, I could search for the article but right now I am making Chili
No professional group is more self worshiping, with less cause, than media.
Can a lawyer tell me if this is gonna be a short or long case ?
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