WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney seemed surprised in 2003 when told where his chief of staff had learned the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.
"From me?'' Cheney asked, tilting his head, according to the grand jury testimony of the aide, I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, who is on trial on charges of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI.
Libby's account of the conversation came near the end of nearly eight hours of audiotapes of his 2004 grand jury testimony that prosecutors finished playing at his trial Wednesday.
Libby describes finding in his own handwritten notes a reference to Cheney saying in mid-June 2003 that the wife of war critic Joseph Wilson worked at the CIA. The reference by Cheney was more than a month before Plame was outed in a newspaper column.
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