Gotta LOVE that Libby!!! Report: Libby defense may point to Cheney/CIA leak investigation!

They'll be like snarling dogs at each others throats soon.



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Report: Libby defense may point to CheneyCIA leak investigation

By Chuck Goudie

February 9, 2006 -

It was the vice president himself, Dick Cheney, who gave the go-ahead to leak classified information, according to one report out of Washington, in part backed up by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, the US attorney in Chicago.

When federal prosecutor Fitzgerald announced last fall that the vice president's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was being indicted for perjury and obstruction, it triggered a treasure hunt for who had given Libby the information.
"The defense will show that Mr. Libby is totally innocent, that he has not done anything wrong," said Ted Wells, Libby's attorney, last Friday.

Thursday night, what may be Libby's defense strategy: he had been authorized to leak classified CIA information.

The investigation tracing the leak has been overseen by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. According to a letter from Fitzgerald to Libby's lawyers obtained by the I-Team, "Mr. Libby testified (to the grand jury) that he was authorized to disclose (classified) information ... to the press by his superiors."

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