POSSIBLE LIBBY TRIAL WITNESSES Attorneys are not required to submit witness lists but many possible witnesses have been named in court documents.
PROSECUTION
• John (Jack) Eckenrode
• Robert Grenier
• Marc Grossman
• Craig Schmall
• Judith Miller
• Ari Fleischer
• David Addington
• Cathie Martin
• Bill Harlow
• Tim Russert
• Matt Cooper
• Stephen Hadley
• George Tenet
The former lead FBI agent in charge of the CIA/Leak investigation. He first interviewed Libby and sat in on the White House interviews of both President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Both were not under oath when they spoke to prosecutors.
A veteran CIA official, he served in 2003 as the chief of the department that helped plan the Iraq invasion. Defense attorneys believe Grenier, or former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin, is the unidentified officer who prosecutors say told Libby on June 11, 2003 that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.
The former under secretary of state is said to have advised Libby on June 12 that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA and helped arrange for his fact-finding trip to Niger. Defense attorneys have called him "a critical witness for the government."
Schmall is believed to be the unnamed CIA briefer in the indictment. Prosecutors say Libby discussed Wilson and his wife with the briefer. Defense attorneys say it may also have been Peter Clement or Matt Barrett.
A former New York Times reporter, Miller interviewed Libby on June 23, July 8 and July 12, 2003. Prosecutors say Libby told Miller that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. Miller testified before a grand jury only after serving 85 days in jail.
The former White House press secretary is expected to be a key witness. Prosecutors say Libby told him on July 7, 2003 that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and that is was not widely known.
Former counsel to the Vice President. Prosecutors say Libby asked him on July 8, 2003 what documents the CIA would have if an employee's spouse were sent overseas.
The public affairs assistant to the Vice President, Martin told Libby sometime around July 8, 2003 that she learned from another government official that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA.
The CIA spokesman is believed to be the government official who told Martin that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA.
Will be key witness because Libby says Russert was the one who informed him July 10, 2003 that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Prosecutors say Libby already knew that and that Plame didn't come up in the Libby/Russert conversation.
Time magazine reporter, Cooper interviewed Libby on July 12, 2003. Prosecutors say Libby confirmed he had heard Wilson's wife was involved in sending him on a fact-finding trip to Niger.
Bush's National Security Advisor could be called to testify about the Bush administration's need to rebut Wilson's criticism of prewar intelligence on Iraq.
The former CIA Director could be a prosecution witness or a defense witness to discuss the agency's response to the Wilson controversy.
DEFENSE
• I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
• Dick Cheney
• Colin Powell
• Reporters
• Robert Novak
• Bob Woodward
• Richard Armitage
• Joseph Wilson
Plans to be his own star witness to explain to the jury that he didn't lie about his conversations with reporters. Rather, he says he was so intently focused on national security issues that he simply forgot the less important matter of Wilson and his wife.
The VP could testify that Wilson and his wife were not a major concern to him, even though prosecutors will introduce evidence of his handwritten comments on Wilson's New York Times column that questions sending the former ambassador on the fact-finding trip.
Defense attorneys have said they may call the former secretary of state to discuss a September 2003 meeting at the White house in which he reportedly said everyone knew Wilson's wife worked at the CIA.
Defense attorneys plan to call as many as seven reporters to testify about their conversations with Libby. Among them NBC's Andrea Mitchell. The reporters have not been publicly identified.
The syndicated columnist who first reported Valerie Plame's name. Novak first learned about Plame from Richard L. Armitage, then deputy secretary of state and a skeptic of the war, proves there was no conspiracy, the defense maintains. "Mr. Libby will counter by showing that when he spoke to the FBI and the grand jury, he knew that he was not a source for the public disclosure of Ms. Wilson's employment," his defense lawyers wrote in a recent filing.
Washington Post reporter who spoke to both Richard Armitage and Libby about Valerie Plame.
The former deputy secretary of state was the original source of the leak. He may not be called to testify now that Judge Reggie Walton has said he wants to keep the back-story of the leak out of the trial. The tape recording that Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward made of his interview with Armitage at the time he revealed Plame's name to him might be admitted at trial.
Defense attorneys have subpoenaed the former ambassador as a possible witness but said they likely will not call him to testify.
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