CIA Leak Prosecutor Focuses On Libby (must read Murray Waas piece in NJ)

[jefferson_dem]

Murray Waas has just published a fine perspective piece on "THE STORY" in National Journal -

CIA Leak Prosecutor Focuses On Libby
By Murray Waas, special to National Journal
© National Journal Group Inc.
Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005

As federal prosecutors in the CIA leak investigation reach the critical stage of deciding whether to bring criminal charges, they are zeroing in on contradictions between the testimony of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, and that of New York Times reporter Judith Miller, according to sources close to the investigation and attorneys for individuals enmeshed in the probe.

The prosecutors and the federal grand jury are also scrutinizing whether Libby, or his attorney, tried to discourage Miller from giving testimony to the grand jury, or tried to improperly influence what Miller would say if she testified, according to the same sources.

The grand jury has heard testimony from Miller and other witnesses that is at odds with Libby's testimony, according to the same sources. One crucial contradiction between Miller and Libby, the sources say, involves a July 8, 2003, breakfast meeting during which the two discussed Valerie Plame, the covert CIA operative whose identity was revealed a week later in a newspaper column and whose husband, Joe Wilson, was a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy.

According to attorneys familiar with his testimony, Libby told the grand jury that at the meeting, he told Miller that Plame had something to do with Wilson's being sent on a controversial CIA-sponsored mission to Africa, but that he did not know that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA or anything else about her.

However, Miller testified and turned over notes from the July 8 conversation to the grand jury that showed that Libby had told her that Plame worked for the CIA's Weapons, Intelligence, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control office.

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http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1018nj1.htm#

[ChiciB1]

1. This Is A Lot Of Information....

especially when everyone ELSE is saying that Fitzgerald has been so MUM!

I'm not doubting this, but it's more info than I heard before.