I. Scooter Libby is a lying sack of shit
Testifying as the final, and perhaps most critical, prosecution witness in the perjury trial of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, Russert recounted their conversation that July and how a "very agitated" Libby called to complain about MSNBC's "Hardball." Russert said that the subject of the CIA officer, Valerie Plame, never came up and that he could not have told Libby anything about her.
"That would be impossible," Russert said, "because I didn't know who that person was until several days later."
Libby, who faces five felony counts of lying to investigators about his role in the leak of Plame's identity, has repeatedly testified that he shared information about Plame with other reporters only after hearing it from Russert during the telephone call. Libby has acknowledged that Cheney first told him about Plame's CIA job, in mid-June, but said that he had forgotten the information by the time he heard it from Russert.
Libby also testified that Cheney, his boss, discussed Plame and her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, daily during this period. Still, his memory failed... via Randi Rhodes