Monday, October 31, 2005 2:32:43 PM ET
By Adam Entous
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's former long-time chief of staff, Lewis Libby, will make his first court appearance on Thursday on criminal charges stemming from the CIA leak investigation, the court said on Monday, as Cheney replaced Libby with two influential aides.
Libby is expected to plead innocent.
Cheney appointed vice presidential counsel David Addington as chief of staff. John Hannah was named national security adviser. Libby had held both positions before his indictment and resignation on Friday.
Libby is the only Cheney aide who has been charged in the two-year investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.
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