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Three and a half years after the explosion over the CIA leak controversy, we have the perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff.(The Week)(Brief article)

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Three and a half years after the explosion over the CIA leak controversy, we have the perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff. And what have we learned? Well, testimony has revealed that a number of top government officials were curious about just who sent former ambassador Joseph Wilson, the anti-Bush gadfly, on a mission to Niger to check out reports that Iraq had sought uranium there. We've learned that those officials thought the role that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, played in sending him on the trip was ...

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