Libby Taped: We Wanted To Show War Criticism "Didn't Hold Water"

AP February 6, 2007 01:08 PM

Prosecutors in the CIA leak trial Tuesday zeroed in on I. Lewis Libby's alleged lies to a grand jury, playing audiotapes of Libby repeatedly saying he could not recall conversations about the CIA employment of the wife of Bush administration critic Joe Wilson.

The eight hours of grand jury testimony conflict with testimony earlier in the trial by former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer and other witnesses who said Libby indeed had discussed the CIA employment of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame.

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