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Show Sony ach18 2608 Dailus Herald Customer Service 375-5103 Newsroom 801-344-2540 Te oll free 800-880-8075 FAX 801-373-489 www. heraldextra.com UT Send mail to: P.O. Box 717. Prove, UT 84603-0717 HOME DELIVERY 375-5103 ADVERTISING cuassinieD Delivery by 6 a.m. Mon-Sat RETAIL weekdays OF 10 a.m. onweekends. 1. nai, Herald (ISSN 0891:2777 icnaaligore For missing papers. call by 9 a.m News EDITORS Executive Editor Metro Editor City Editor Sports Editor Ran dy Wright 3 Pyrah Ame Rose wll Dickson Business Editor Life & Style Editor nad W. Meyers Editorial Page Editor President & Publisher VP & Weekly Publisher VP Marketing/Operations Advertising Director restarts, delinery or -al/ 375-5103 week to 5:30 p.m. 344-2913 rwnght@heraldextra com 344-2586 jpyrah@heraldextra com 344-2530 arose@heraldextra com 344-2555, ddickson@heraidextra com 344-2910 (gleong@heraldextra com 344-2553 eandrus@heraidestra com 344-2544 dmeyers@heraldextra.com SENIOR MANAGERS Albert J. Manzi 348-2935 amanzi@heraldextra.com Kirk Parkinson 344-2502 kparkinson@heraldextra com Production Manager ADVERTISINGFAX Pete Yost USPS 143-060) is published mom- ings, Sunday through Saturday, by Lee Publications, a division of Lee Enterprises, Inc., 1555 N Freedom Bivd., Provo, Utah 84604. Penodicals postage paid at Provo Box 717, Provo, Utah 84603-0717. ndepenaence Day. Pi Labor Day, Thanksgiing, Christmas and New Year's Day MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS contents Copyright © 2006, baty Herald. Any reproduction or other use is strictly prohibited with out writtenpermission. months ahead of his scheduled trial in the Valerie Plameaffair, 1. Lewis “Scooter” Libby seems intent on zeroing in on three little letters the Bush White Tohear Libby's lawyerstell it in their latest court filing, Plame's CIA status was hardly a blip on the radarscreen as the administrationtried to dodge incomingcriticism. Libby’s legal team described her CIAidentity as “at most a peripheralissue” to “the media conflagration overthe failure to find WMD” — weaponsof mass destruction ing then-Deputy Secretaryof State Richard Armitage and deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove — probably would sayat Libby's trial. Noting press reports last week, the court papers say ‘ there has been speculation that Wilson's wife worked at columnist Robert Novak are the sameperson. Novak disclosed Plame's iden- court papers suggest In a preludeto a possible courtroom defense, Libby's lawyersalso suggested in a tity on July 14, 2003, eight days court filing late Friday night prewarintelligence to exag- thatit's the State Department gerate the Iraqithreat from a — not Libby — who's to blame nuclear weapons program. + “If the factsultimately show = that Mr. Armitage or someon? +3 else from the State Departments over whether the White House manipulated intelligence to jus- after Wilsoncontended in a NewYork Times op-ed columnsre that the administration twisted 5 . wasalso Mr. Novak's primary Fr source, then the State Depart: £ ment andcertainly not Mr. * + Libby bearsresponsibility for 2+ the‘leak’ that led to the public:. disclosure”of Plame's CIA: identity, Libby's lawyers said. "~ tify the invasionofIraq. Thecourtfiling also focused on Marc Grossman,a former groundinformationabout “fingerpointing,” and also understands Libby's additional focus onurgent national security mat- undersecretary of state for political affairs who allegedly told Libby a month before Plame's identity was disclosed that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. “If Mr: Armitage or another State Departmentofficial wasin fact the primary source for Mr. If the jury learns the back- - ters, the jury will more easily appreciate howMr. Libby may have forgotten or misremem- bered “snippets of conversation” about Plame's CIA status, the defense lawyersstated. Cheney’s formerchief of staff was indicted Oct. 28 on five countsof perjury, obstruc- Novak'sarticle, Mr. Grossman's testimony maybe colored by either his personal relationship tion and lying to the FBI about with Mr. Armitageor his concernfortheinstitutional con- employment andwhathe told cerns of the state Department,” Libby's lawyers wrote. howhelearned of Plame's CIA ei any wireless carrier Nigerat the CIA's behest and about“his wife's involvement” with that mission. The documents relate to what prospective witnesses — includ. the CIA, and speculation that Woodward's source and the primarysource for conservative identity to the news media. The court papers underscore the possibility that a criminal trial of Libby could turn into a majorpolitical embarrassment for the Bush administration by highlighting the ongoing debate calls. that Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, made to the African nation of that Armitage told The Washington Post's Bob Woodward for leaking Valerie Plame's CIA (cleode-\emme documents about a 2002 trip It’s the mediaconflagration, and theresulting fingerpointing among the White House, the CIA and the State Department Libby's lawyers wantto focus onin a bid to get him off. their IKEVesye ton for access to government — inIra over whowasto blame, that a OTerasa reporters about her. Libby's lawyers are asking US. District Judge Reggie Wal. WASHINGTON — Ten House would like to forget forever: WMD. Utah. 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Serbian television, which broadcast the ceremony live, reported that an elderly. mournerdied of a/heart attack during the two-hour ceremony. “Weare bidding ee to the best one among us,ft conscious ofhis greatness,” Socialist ray president Milorad Vucelicsaid. “Our Serbia will rise like a ist Party had many of the trap- phoenix from the ashes — it will pings of a state funeral. eae be proud of you and In Belgrade, the ane, an es- our legacy,” Vojislav Seselj, a timated 80,000 people — many SerbianRaeTietenis leader el of them bused to Belgrade from in custody at Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo ina letter read byere — packed a squarein front of sandar Vucic. |