"If it turned out that what he said was wrong that doesn't mean he is a liar. It means he may have misrecollected what happened."

Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was found guilty of perjury and obstruction in the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. He is the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since the Iran-Contra affair two decades ago.





