FBI Agent: Cheney Told Libby About Plame

Washington Post Carol D. Leonnig and Amy Goldstein February 1, 2007 04:24 PM

An FBI agent who interviewed I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby during the CIA leak investigation testified today that the vice president's then-chief of staff did not reveal that he had repeatedly disclosed the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame to reporters and insisted he was surprised when another journalist later told him about her.

FBI agent Deborah S. Bond told jurors in Libby's perjury trial that he said he did not come across a hand-written note he had taken during a telephone conversation with Vice President Cheney until he was preparing to be interviewed as part of the investigation. The note made clear that, shortly before June 12, 2003, Cheney had told him that Plame worked at the CIA's counterproliferation division and was married to a former ambassador who was an outspoken critic of the Iraq war.

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