Oh, I'm so sad. It looks like Libby Wibby dinnit tell the Whole Truth, and now Daddy Fitz is angry:

A former White House aide, I. Lewis Libby, may have disclosed conclusions from a highly classified government report on Iraq to journalists before the report was declassified by President Bush, federal prosecutors said in a new court filing.

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Defendant testified that he recalled a ‘go-stop-go' sequence in discussions concerning authorization to disclose the NIE, that is, he was authorized to disclose, then he was instructed to hold off, and then later told again to disclose," Mr. Fitzgerald wrote. He also said Mr. Libby testified that he may have "slipped" in discussing with Mr. Sanger the report's conclusion that Iraq was "vigorously trying to procure" uranium.

"The government simply wishes to make clear that it cannot affirmatively agree that each time defendant disclosed the NIE, he was authorized to do so," Mr. Fitzgerald said.

In a separate filing, the prosecutor also asked Judge Walton to reject a defense motion seeking to bar any discussion at Mr. Libby's trial about the extensive legal wrangling surrounding efforts to force reporters to testify before the grand jury investigating the leak. One journalist, Ms. Miller, spent 85 days in jail after refusing to testify about her conversations with Mr. Libby.

Mr. Fitzgerald said the defense was seeking "free rein" to argue Mr. Libby had no reason to lie because he thought reporters would testify, when, in fact, he knew that the journalists were likely to go to some lengths to avoid testifying. The prosecutor also disputed the defense claim that Mr. Libby unequivocally exhorted Ms. Miller and other reporters to testify.

I hope Libby enjoys a long and satifying prison sentence.