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Prosecutor Keeps an Eye on Cheney

Froomkin: Even after the fact, CIA leak case evidence leads to VP

By M. Morris, Newser Staff

Posted May 30, 2007 9:56 AM CDT

(Newser) – Scooter Libby is about to be sentenced, but the government prosecutor and lawyers for the VP's ex-chief of staff aren't letting up, the Washington Post's Dan Froomkin blogs today. The jousting continued in a court filing last week in which, Froomkin posits, "the special... Read full story »

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