Libby Reportedly Said 'I Didn't Do It'

[Omaha Steve]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070130/D8MVM2U00.html

Libby Reportedly Said 'I Didn't Do It'

Jan 30, 10:16 AM (ET)

By MATT APUZZO

WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid the furor over the 2003 leak of a CIA operative's identity, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, bluntly told a White House lawyer, "I didn't do it," the lawyer testified Tuesday.

David Addington, who served as Cheney's legal counsel during the CIA leak scandal, described a September 2003 meeting with Libby around the time that a criminal investigation began.

"I just want to tell you, I didn't do it," Addington recalled Libby saying. "I didn't ask what the 'it' was."


I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, left, arrives at U.S. District Court in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007, with his attorney Theodore V. Wells, Jr.. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald says Libby discussed CIA operative Valerie Plame with reporters, then lied about those conversations. He is accused of perjury and obstruction but neither he nor anyone else is charged with the leak itself.

FULL story at link.

[Beetwasher]

1. Heh

Whatever you say Scoot. :eyes:

[gratuitous]

2. Oh, the jails and prisons are chock full of guys who didn't do it

You just ask the inmates, and you'd be appalled at how many innocent men are behind bars, serving time for not doin' nothin'. Of course, not many of them come from Mr. Libby's social and economic stratum, so it's not surprising that he would say something that his fellow criminals would just laugh their butts off at.

[tanyev]

3. Scooter can devote the rest of his life to helping his cell mates!

That would be such a nice thing to do.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. didn't do 'what' turning the aspens?

[Maeve]

5. Anybody else hear that in Bart Simpson's voice? eom

[BadgerKid]

7. Yes. And, hey it was that way when I got here! eom

[daleo]

6. Could Scooter become the new "I didn't do it" boy?

I am thinking of Bart Simpson here.