Prober: Libby plays traitor card
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON - Vice President Cheney's indicted former top aide was accused yesterday of threatening to divulge America's biggest national security secrets in court unless a prosecutor backs off.

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald compared Lewis (Scooter) Libby to America's worst traitors by saying he's using the favorite legal tactic of spies trying to avoid a trial or death sentence.

Fitzgerald urged a judge to reject Libby's request for 277 CIA-prepared documents from 2003 known as the President's Daily Brief - the most sensitive national security memos in the U.S. government - by arguing it was just a ploy to kill the case.

"The defendant's effort to make history in this case by seeking 277 PDBs - for the sole purpose of showing that he was 'preoccupied' with other matters when he gave testimony to the grand jury - is a transparent effort at 'graymail,'" Fitzgerald said in new court filings... http://tinyurl.com/j55pa
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