Were Active in Effort to Discredit Joseph C. Wilson?
/ Libby & Cheney – January 26th, 2007: “Vice President Dick Cheney and his former chief of staff, I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, were actively involved in an effort to discredit a critic of the Iraq war even before the fact that his wife was a CIA operative became public, a senior White House official testified Thursday [01/25/07]. [….] Catherine J. Martin, then Cheney’s top media aide, testified that she told Libby and Cheney that Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA before it was publicly revealed in a syndicated column by Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. Libby has told federal agents that he had first learned from journalists that Plame was a CIA agent. [….]” [Based on: Los Angeles Times article, p. A3, S.L.P.D., 01/26/07] 2007 – Immunity-From-Prosecution Deal (Ari Fleischer) / CIA Leak Case – January 27th, 2007: “Attorney’s for former vice presidential aide I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby want more information about an unusual immunity-from-prosecution deal that government lawyers gave former Whi
