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By Michael Isikoff
Newsweek
Friday 26 January 2007
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The president's political guru - and counselor Dan Bartlett - have been subpoenaed by Scooter Libby's lawyers. What it
means for the most-watched trial in Washington - and who's next on the witness stand.
White House anxiety is mounting over the prospect that top officials - including deputy chief of staff Karl Rove and
counselor Dan Bartlett-may be forced to provide potentially awkward testimony in the perjury and obstruction trial of
Lewis (Scooter) Libby.
Both Rove and Bartlett have already received trial subpoenas from Libby's defense lawyers, according to lawyers close
to the case who asked not to be identified talking about sensitive matters. While that is no guarantee they will be
called, the odds increased this week after Libby's lawyer, Ted Wells, laid out a defense resting on the idea that his
client, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, had been made a "scapegoat" to protect Rove. Cheney is
expected to provide the most crucial testimony to back up Wells's assertion, one of the lawyers close to the case said.
The vice president personally penned an October 2003 note in which he wrote, "Not going to protect one staffer and
sacrifice the other."
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