Libby lawyers looking for more goverment documents

AP/NY Times:

Lawyers for former White House aide I. Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby say a prosecutor is trying to ''have it both ways'' by playing up President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's role in leaking intelligence on Iraq to reporters but refusing to turn over evidence in the case.

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Libby's lawyers said in Wednesday's filing that Fitzgerald, with his revelations about Bush and Cheney, set off ''an avalanche of media interest'' that shows ''that this case is factually complex and that the government's notion that it involves only Mr. Libby and (the Office of the Vice President) is a fairy tale.''

Fitzgerald and Libby's lawyers are fighting over a defense request for a wide assortment of documents that may be at the White House, State Department and the CIA. Libby's lawyers said Fitzgerald has collected hundreds of thousands of documents but given the defense only about six boxes, or 14,000 pages of records.

The defense attorneys want records related to Wilson's trip to Niger because they said they may call him as a hostile witness.

Libby's lawyers also want documents that may explain how Bush decided to declassify portions of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iraq had tried to obtain uranium for a nuclear weapon from African nations.

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There is more. Wilson's role as a rogue CIA opperative/leaker should be a part of this trial.

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