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Link: Cheney to Be Defense Witness in CIA Leak Cas
SCOOP LINK: Cheney to Be Defense Witness in CIA
Leak Case
By Matt Apuzzo
The
Associated Press
Tuesday 19 December 2006
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121906R.shtml
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061219/D8M44AK00.html
Washington - Vice President Dick Cheney will be called as a defense witness in the CIA leak case, an attorney for Cheney's former chief of staff told a federal judge Tuesday.
"We're calling the vice president," attorney Ted Wells said in court. Wells represents defendant I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who is charged with perjury and obstruction.
Early last week, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said he did not expect the White House to resist if Cheney or other administration officials are called to testify in Libby's trial, expected to begin in January.
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