FBI Agent Outlines Libby Perjury Case

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2007 — -- The FBI case agent who originally interviewed former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby testified before the jury today about about the alleged lies in that interview that would eventually lead to his perjury and obstruction of justice trial.

According to FBI agent Deborah Bond, Libby claimed that he never disclosed CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson's name to reporters -- while the prosecution has presented several journalists as witnesses who said that he did disclose her name.

Bond described two FBI interviews in Libby's office at the White House complex on Oct. 14, 2003 and Nov. 26, 2003. Bond said that during the first interview with the FBI, Libby produced a note that indicated that on or about June 12, 2003, Vice President Cheney told Libby that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife worked at the CIA's counter-proliferation division.

He told prosecutors that in preparation for a response to a newspaper story being written by a Washington Post reporter, Libby had been told by the vice president, around June 12, 2003, that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, according to Bond's testimony.

"Mr. Libby told us the vice president told him that...[Libby] believed he [the vice president] had heard it from (former CIA) Director George Tenet." Bond testified.

Bond described the basis for the criminal investigation into who leaked Valerie Plame Wilson's identity to the press after her husband, a former diplomat and critic of the Iraq war, publicly challenged the basis of statements in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger.

Bond also testified that on or about a July 12, 2003, Libby had a conversation with Cheney on board Air Force 2 about releasing Valerie Wilson's name to the press. But Bond said Libby's recollection was not clear.

"He believed they talked about it but was not sure," Bond told the jury.