Potential Libby Jurors to Get Politically Charged Questions Jury selection is set to begin today in the trial of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former Cheney chief of staff accused of perjury and obstruction in the Valerie Plame case. “[A]ttorneys for both sides want to ask potential jurors about their opinions of the Bush administration, political scandals and the Iraq war.” Given that the trial’s venue is DC, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 9-to-1, Libby and his attorneys will be hard-pressed to find sympathetic ears. (AP)Judge Rules fired CIA Agent’s Lawsuit can Proceed A former CIA agent who contends he was fired for collecting prewar intelligence unfriendly to the Bush administration’s Iraq claims can sue the agency, a US District Judge ruled. The agent, known only as Doe, collected information from several countries, including Iraq, and makes the potentially explosive charges that “CIA superiors either refused to disseminate the intelligence or demanded he falsify his report to indicate several countries were developing the weapons,” and that his personnel file was falsified to justify his firing. (AP)
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