Libby Briefings Request Would Be a Security Risk, CIA Says

[Catherine Vincent]

Libby Briefings Request Would Be a Security Risk, CIA Says
March 7 (Bloomberg) -- A request by former White House official I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby for copies of daily presidential briefings to help in his defense poses a risk to national security, the CIA said in court papers in his case.

Libby was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice following an investigation of the disclosure of a CIA operative in a newspaper. He is scheduled to go on trial in January. His lawyers said they want the briefings to help them show Libby's job as Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff involved national security issues and that he may have forgotten or misremembered details of conversations with reporters.

The request for more than 10 months of the President's Daily Brief would impose an ``enormous burden'' on the agency because it would have to ensure that any classified information in the reports stayed secret and because the request would take nine months to comply with, the Central Intelligence Agency said in court documents unsealed today in Washington.

``Any disclosure of the PDB beyond its intended narrow audience -- the President and his most senior advisers -- increases the possibility of damage to the national security,'' Marilyn Dorn, information review officer at the CIA's National Clandestine Service, said in a sworn affidavit.

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[Caution]

1. Gee have the CIA give info to someone they know leaks classified intel

great idea!

[Skidmore]

2. Who the eff cares anymore anyway?

I'm so tired of secrets and classification to protect corruption. Clean the fucking house. From top to bottom, and get the bats out of the attic while we're at it.

[H2O Man]

3. Almost all of the

pretrial actions are going against poor Scooter. That fat wad of cash in his defense fund will not create a sense of security as the image of incarceration invades Scooters consciousness late at night, when he tries to sleep.