Vice President Dick Cheney called his former chief of staff, who goes on trial this week in the CIA leak case, "one of the more honest men I know" and said Sunday he expects to testify for the defense.
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby faces charges of perjury and obstruction of an investigation into the leak of a CIA officer's identity to reporters.
Cheney would not say whether he would testify in open court or possibly via videotape.Libby's lawyers say the public disclosure of the identity of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, resulted not because of a grand conspiracy, but rather because of political infighting among the CIA, the White House and the State Department over intelligence failures on Iraq.
Libby plans to testify about the other things he had on his mind when Plame was outed and when the FBI questioned him. He says terrorist threats, Middle East tensions, the war in Iraq and emerging nuclear programs in Iran, North Korea and Pakistan overshadowed the Plame issue and clouded his memory about how and when he learned Plame's identity.
Seems like Cheney is spreading himself pretty thin these days-perhaps so when everything backfires in his face, he will be able to say "my memory was clouded!" LOL!
Jan 15, 2007
Cheney: 'Scooter' Libby an 'Honest' Man
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