In March 2004 grand-jury testimony, played before the jury last week in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. admitted that he spoke to at least one reporter in July 2003 during which he called Joseph Wilson's excursion to Niger nothing more than a "boondoggle." And befitting a case in which words play the prominent role, much of the back-and-forth between the prosecutor and Libby about that conversation involved whether the term "boondoggle" was ever used.
February 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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He said he had nothing against Joseph Wilson. That he didn’t know Valerie Plame was Wilson’s wife.
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr. said a lot of things in eight hours of grand-jury testimony. But somewhere in the lengthy recordings, it was revealed for the first time in Libby’s perjury trial, that he actively contributed to a smear campaign against Wilson in an effort to destroy his credibility as a Bush administration critic.
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