Special prosecutor amends allegation against Libby

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Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The special prosecutor investigating Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, has amended one of the allegations against the White House aide that was contained in documents filed in federal court last week.

The change downplays the importance that the CIA gave to Iraq's purported attempt to buy uranium from the African nation of Niger. Further, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald corrected the allegation that Libby had described the suspected uranium purchase as a "key judgment" of the CIA - a term of art in the intelligence community that gives the accusation high significance.

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The original sentence read: "Defendant understood that he was to tell Miller, among other things, that a key judgment of the NIE held that Iraq was `vigorously trying to procure' uranium."

Fitzgerald's corrected version said: "Defendant understood that he was to tell Miller, among other things, some of the key judgments of the NIE, and that the NIE stated that Iraq was `vigorously trying to procure' uranium."

source: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/14327561.htm

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1. link for 29 and 25 page PDF here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x920067

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2. Thanks! n/t

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3. "I." stands for "Irving"

IMHO he is/was more of an Irving than a Scooter.