(Plame) Libby Lawyers intend to finger POWELL(!) as leaker

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http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/libby2.htm

I know nothing about this source ("insightmag") so take w/ grain of salt.

Libby lawyers finger top State Dept. leaders for CIA leak

Attorneys for former Vice President Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby say one of three senior State Department officials was the source of a leak that exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame.

They say the officials are: former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and then-Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman.

The attorneys for Mr. Libby plan to argue that a senior official in the State Department leaked Mrs. Plame's identity amid the administration's defense of the U.S. failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The attorneys have sought to highlight heavy infighting between White House staff and the CIA and State Department amid criticism by Mrs. Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

"The media conflagration ignited by the failure to find WMD in Iraq and in part by Mr. Wilson's criticism of the administration, led officials within the White House, the State Department and the CIA to blame each other, publicly and in private, for faulty pre-war intelligence about Iraq's WMD capabilities," papers filed by Mr. Libby's defense team said.
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So, how does claiming that Powell (et. al.) was the leaker help defend against a Perjury charge of lying about Tim Russert? :wtf: or is this just general purpose obfuscation?