"Scooter" Lewis Libby of Cheney's office linked to Rove affair [exposing CIA operative]

The Globe and Mail: Cheney's office linked to Rove affair: "Sunday, July 17, 2005 Updated at 5:37 PM EDT

Washington — U.S. Vice-President Richard Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, was a source along with U.S. President George W. Bush's chief political adviser for a Time story that identified a CIA officer, the magazine reporter said Sunday, further countering White House claims that neither aide was involved in the leak."
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Until last week, the White House had insisted for nearly two years that Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove had no connection to the leak. Ms. Plame's husband is Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson, the top U.S. diplomat in Iraq at the start of the Persian Gulf War.