WASHINGTON - Granting a former White House aide's demands for classified documents to aid his defense in the CIA leak investigation would torpedo the case, the prosecutor is arguing.
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald suggests that allowing I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby access to the documents — many of which Libby read or wrote while working for Vice President Dick Cheney — would have a "breathtaking" impact on national security.
In arguments filed late Thursday, Fitzgerald said Libby's lawyers were trying to derail the perjury and obstruction case by pressing for nearly a year's worth of presidential daily briefs, summaries of threats to the U.S. that are among the government's most closely guarded secrets.
Fitzgerald also asked U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton to protect the ongoing grand jury investigation by not forcing the release of the identities of other "individuals" who discussed a covert CIA officer with reporters in 2003.
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