NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert “will be a star government witness” in U.S. v. Libby, the Washington Post reports. “He has told [Patrick] Fitzgerald that [Lewis] Libby fabricated parts of a conversation with him. He has said that when he spoke with Libby in mid-July, [Valerie] Plame never came up as Libby complained that MSNBC host Chris Matthews had an antiwar slant.
Russert has said he did not know about Plame until he read Novak’s column. A source familiar with the case says his version will be corroborated by testimony from NBC News’s former president, Neal Shapiro. Russert told Shapiro about Libby’s complaint soon after the call, the source said, saying nothing about Plame.” More…
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