Cheney could be witness in CIA leak case - Yahoo! News

Cheney could be witness in CIA leak case - Yahoo! News: "Thu May 25, 1:31 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President
Dick Cheney could be called to testify in the
CIA leak case involving his former chief of staff, a U.S. prosecutor said in a pre-trial filing made on Wednesday.
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Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald told a federal court that Cheney's hand-written notes on a newspaper article referring to
Valerie Plame shortly before she was exposed as a CIA operative were uniquely relevant to the issues in the case.

Fitzgerald was referring to a July 6, 2003, article written by Plame's husband, Bush administration critic and former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson.
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In the court filing, Fitzgerald said Libby has acknowledged that he and the vice president discussed Wilson's article.

"Here as defendant has acknowledged, the vice president communicated to defendant the facts he considered notable, and also directed defendant to get out to the public 'all' the facts in response to the Wilson Op Ed," Fitzgerald wrote in the court filing.

"The state of mind of the vice president as communicated to defendant is directly relevant to the issue of whether defendant knowingly made false statements to federal agents and the grand jury regarding when and how he learned about Ms. Wilson's employment and what he said to reporters regarding this issue," Fitzgerald said in the court filing.

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