Libby Lawyers makes new filing

[brettdale]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Libby_makes_new_filing_in_CIA_0412.html

Lawyers for I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff who was indicted for obstructing the investigation of an outed CIA agent, made a new filing in the CIA leak case Wednesday afternoon, RAW STORY has learned.

The filing has not been publicly released. RAW STORY will provide more detail when it becomes available.

Libby's filing comes in response to prosecutors' assertions that he was authorized by President George W. Bush to take part in an effort to discredit Joseph Wilson, a critic of administration's Iraq policy and husband of the outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. Wilson traveled to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq had sought uranium from the African country; he found the claims to be spurious.

DEVELOPING...

[H2O Man]

1. CIPA Motion (on discovery)

In February, Judge Walton adjusted the dates per the CIPA motions: the (first) motion was filed 3-17; the response on 4-5; and today is the reply.

[H2O Man]

2. CIPA

is the Classified Information Procedures Act; we're looking at the daily briefings.

[janx]

3. Help me out here...

It seems that Libby's lawyers are concentrating on the CIPA, but Fitz is concerned with the Intelligence Identities Protection Act--yes?

Shills like Toensig and DiGenova were pouncing on this long ago from a CIPA standpoint, and I learned later (from some filings) that Fitz wasn't approaching this from that angle at all.

Am I crazy? Can you explain?