ARI FLEISCHER. Ari Fleischer was certainly the most damaging prosecution witness against Scooter Libby so far in Libby's trial. Fleischer testified that on July 7, 2003 Libby told him that Valerie Plame worked at the CIA and that the information was "hush-hush." Libby's story under oath is that, having completely forgotten that he had been told of Plame by Vice President Cheney in early- to mid-June 2003, he only learned about Plame, as though for the first time, from Tim Russert, around July 11, and subsequently only spread the information to other reporters as journalistic hearsay for whose truth he could not vouch.)
We knew that this would be Fleischer's testimony. But there were two further pieces of it we did not know until Fleischer actually testified that are worth underlining. The Washington Post, which is doing fine reporting on the trial, caught this:
