Source: AP via Yahoo News
Next on the "Fitzmas list" may be everyone's favorite VP, Dick
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald suggested in a court filing Wednesday that Cheney would be a logical witness for the prosecution because the vice president could authenticate notes he jotted on a copy of a New York Times opinion column by a critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Fitzgerald said Cheney's "state of mind" is "directly relevant" to whether I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's former top aide, lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury about how Libby learned CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity and what he later told reporters.
Libby "shared the interests of his superior and was subject to his direction," the prosecutor wrote.
"Therefore, the state of mind of the vice president as communicated to (the) defendant is directly relevant to the issue of whether (the) defendant knowingly made false statements to federal agents and the grand jury regarding when and how he learned about (Plame's) employment and what he said to reporters regarding this issue," according to the filing.
Tags: [Dick Cheney], [Patrick Fitzgerald], [Valerie Plame], [Plame leak], [Fitzmas], [Scooter Libby]
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