Fmr. Cheney Insider: NBC's Meet The Press Part Of VP Strategy To “Control [The] Message”

Eat The Press Nick Douglas January 26, 2007 01:45 PM

Dick Cheney bets on "Meet the Press," a staffer told Libby who Valerie Plame was, and Ari Fleischer will testify Monday. These are the most recent revelations from the trial of Cheney's former chief-of-staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, which yesterday centered on the testimony of former Cheney spokeswoman Cathie Martin.

Martin yesterday testified that she told Libby about Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agent (contradicting Libby's claim that he learned Plame's identity from the press). In fact, she says, he called at least one reporter to check the story. Martin told the court, "I was aggravated that he was talking to the press, and I wasn't." According to Slate's Seth Stevenson, media reps in the room laughed at the line.

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