Two of the five felony counts in the perjury and obstruction of justice case against Lewis Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, are based entirely on a single phone conversation Libby had with Matthew Cooper, then a White House correspondent for Time magazine, on July 12, 2003. In federal court in Washington Wednesday, CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed his documentary evidence to support those charges — one count of perjury and one count of making false statements — and the evidence was this:
had somethine and about the wilson thing and not sure if it’s ever
That brief passage, reproduced here exactly as it was written, is a portion of Cooper’s hastily typed notes from the July 12 conversation. It apparently describes something that was said between Cooper and Libby that may, or may not, have touched on the question of whether Libby leaked to Cooper the information that former ambassador Joseph Wilson’s wife played a role in the decision to send him to Niger to investigate part of the administration’s case for war in Iraq.
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