From The Independent UK
By Andrew Buncombe

Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the senior White House official charged over the CIA leak affair, is to appear in court this week, as investigators continue their inquiries into the activities of President George Bush’s senior political adviser, Karl Rove.

The issue of greatest concern now to the White House is what may emerge during Mr Libby’s trial. It has already been revealed that the special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, may wish to call Mr Cheney as a witness, especially since the indictments revealed that Mr Libby had learnt about the identity and position of Ms Plame from several sources, one of whom was the Vice-President.

The trial could also become a wider inquiry that examines the processes that went on in the White House as senior officials plotted to make the case to the public of the need to launch an invasion of Iraq.

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