Jurors may hear Libby's grand jury testimony

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Jurors may hear Libby's grand jury testimony
Recordings at the heart of perjury-faulty memory arguments
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16921197/
MSNBC | 2/1/07

WASHINGTON - Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be saving NBC newsman Tim Russert as his last witness in the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. In the meantime, Fitzgerald may let Libby himself do the talking.

Fitzgerald has said he plans to play excerpts from Libby's grand jury testimony at trial, and the government's next witness, FBI agent Deborah Bond, appears to be Fitzgerald's opportunity. That would give jurors the chance to hear for themselves the testimony that Fitzgerald says is a lie and that Libby says is a product of faulty memory.

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Fitzgerald spent the first week of the trial presenting witnesses who said they talked to Libby about Plame, the wife of prominent Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson. Some witnesses, such as officials from the CIA and State Department, said they told Libby about Plame.

Others, such as former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer and journalists Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper, said Libby talked about Plame to them.

Those witnesses undercut Libby's claim that he didn't remember learning about Plame through official channels and was surprised to hear about her during a much later conversation with Russert. Any conversations he had about Plame, Libby said, were just recollections of what he heard from Russert.

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about 1/2 way down the page MSNBC has a fact file: LIBBY TRIAL SO FAR
A daily synopsis of the I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby perjury and obstruction trial.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16921197/

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talkinghead blather are saying that LIBBY probably won't testify on his own behalf given the contradictory testimony so far - although some are saying that for the "faulty memory defense" to work Libby will need to testify

other blatherheads are betting on CHENEY not testifying - too much of the testimony points to him as being extremely involved in the original leak. Although the trial is about Libby lying to the grand jury, a door has been opened for carefully worded questions regarding the sequence of events - this could put Cheney in the position of implicating himself

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1. Has Cheney testified under oath yet?

Or has he spoken to the FBI on this matter? Just wondering if HE could be brought up on charges of lying.

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2. not that I'm aware of

the only thing I can find are articles regarding the time bush sat on cheney's lap when they were originally questioned about the leak -- and they were not under oath

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3. Testimony Summary From Leak Witnesses

Testimony Summary From Leak Witnesses
By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Wednesday, January 31, 2007; 5:36 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013101614.html


-- A summary of testimony from witnesses in the obstruction and perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.