Dan Froomkin: 'I Didn't Do It'

[Veronica.Franco]

'I Didn't Do It'

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, January 31, 2007; 1:02 PM

It's a memorable scene.

The time: September 2003, just as the Department of Justice is launching its investigation of who leaked Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agent to the media.

The characters: Scooter Libby, the singularly important chief of staff to an enormously powerful vice president, and David S. Addington, the vice president's preeminent legal brain and architect of the White House's expansion of executive power.

The place: Libby's spacious office in the gothic Old Executive Office Building, right next door to the White House.

"I just want to tell you, I didn't do it," Libby tells Addington, according to the latter's testimony yesterday at the former's federal trial for perjury and obstruction of justice.

And how does Addington respond? No one has ever suggested he is stupid. He did not respond at all.

"I didn't ask what the 'it' was," Addington testified yesterday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/01/31/BL2007013101055.html

[Veronica.Franco]

1. So NOW we both know that IT does, in fact, exist ? ...

That's been my reply ... this (I didn't do it) sounds like a comment every kid makes ... deny before IT's even been established ...

Interesting ... I just posted this article and then had to log back in with a NEW password to post this reply? ... that was odd and a first ...