The Scooter Libby Trial: The Ever-Present Cheney Question

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As courtroom testimony continues to pile up in the Libby trial, still unanswered is the question of whether Vice President Cheney told his former chief of staff to leak information about Valerie Plame’s CIA status. No evidence has emerged yet, but the Washington Post reports today on several elements of the testimony about Libby thus far that indicate “the vice president’s unusual attentiveness to the controversy and his desire to blunt it.”

The Legal Times also has a story out today about how testimony in the Libby trial is upsetting the natural order of some of Washington’s allegiances — creating friends from enemies and turning colleagues against one another:

Last week, one confidant of Vice President Dick Cheney took the stand to testify against another. Former White House insiders Ari Fleischer and Cathie Martin branded their former colleague Libby as a man obsessed with former Ambassador Joseph Wilson. And ex-New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified to help Fitzgerald — the man who jailed her for 85 days — prosecute the one-time anonymous source she had vowed to protect.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/02/05/the-scooter-libby-trial-the-ever-present-cheney-question/

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1. When Is Cheney Scheduled To Take The Stand - Will He Take The Stand.....

now? Will he show up in court or will he be able to do it by closed-circuit TV or something? Will he be under oath?

We'll he have a "You can't handle the truth" moment?