AP - CIA Leak Players

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Looks like the Libby Trial is going to be top news next week. It's a good sign when the wires put out people bios ahead of time.

Sat Jan 13, 11:41 AM ET

A look at the major players in the perjury and obstruction trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former top aide to Vice President
Dick Cheney:

DEFENDANT

Libby once was among the most trusted officials at the White House. He was Cheney's chief of staff and an adviser to
President Bush.


JUDGE

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton does not fit neatly into a political box.

A former prosecutor who served as deputy drug czar under the first President Bush, Walton also spent time as a public defender and has spoken out against what he sees as unfair disparities between sentences for possession of crack and powder cocaine.


PROSECUTOR

Patrick Fitzgerald made a name for himself as one of the leading prosecutors on terrorism and national security issues while in the U.S. attorney's office in New York. He was nominated to be U.S. attorney in Chicago in 2001; two years later, he was put in charge of the CIA leak case.


DEFENSE TEAM

As a lawyer himself and political veteran, Libby knew the legal landscape as well as anyone. He has hired Theodore V. Wells Jr. and William H. Jeffress Jr., two big-name defense lawyers.

Between them, Wells and Jeffress have represented former President Nixon, former Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., tobacco companies, former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan and former Rep. Floyd Flake, D-N.Y.


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