[Mb-civic] Testimony By Rove and Libby Examined - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>Testimony By Rove and Libby Examined
Leak Prosecutor Seeks Discrepancies

By Carol D. Leonnig and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, July 23, 2005; Page A01

Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has been reviewing over the 
past several months discrepancies and gaps in witness testimony in his 
investigation of the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame, according 
to lawyers in the case and witness statements.

Fitzgerald has spent considerable time since the summer of 2004 looking 
at possible conflicts between what White House senior adviser Karl Rove 
and vice presidential staff chief I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby told a grand 
jury and investigators, and the accounts of reporters who talked with 
the two men, according to various sources in the case.

<>Libby has testified that he learned about Plame from NBC correspondent 
Tim Russert, according to a source who spoke with The Washington Post 
some months ago. Russert said in a statement last year that he told the 
prosecutor that "he did not know Ms. Plame's name or that she was a CIA 
operative" and that he did not provide such information to Libby in July 
2003.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072201830.html?nav=hcmodule 

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