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FBI agent just testified that Libby told her he first heard Plame name from Cheney - contradicts Libby's earlier claim he heard name from Russert



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After a long day or legal wrangling and no witnesses, an FBI agent took the stand shortly before 3 p.m. She is Deborah Bond, a 19 year veteran, called into the probe of who may have leaked name of classified agent.

She described the bueau's interview with Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Oct. 14, 2003. Asked where he first learned of Plame, he had told the FBI -- from the vice president, on June 12 that year.

Vice President Cheney had also said that she worked in "CP" or counter-proliferation at the agency. How did Cheney know this? From someone at the CIA -- possibly director George Tenet, but Libby wasn't sure.

How to explain Libby originally claiming he had first heard name from NBC's Tim Russert in July He had simply forgotten he had actually heard it from the vice president a month or more earlier. He said it was actually Russert who asked him if he knew that Ambassador Joe Wilson's wife worked at the agency and, allegedly, other reporters knew this. Then Libby told other reporters about it, including Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post and NBC's Andrea Mitchell.


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