96^th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. A busy couple of days, part of a sequence in which the administration apparently tries to sprinkle information about Wilson’s wife through prominent media outlets like someone pushing a hard-boiled egg through a grater. They do not get immediate results, however.
July 7-8, 2003:

July 7, 2003 – I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, has a farewell lunch with Ari Fleischer in which Libby tells Fleischer, now exiting as White House Press Secretary, about Mrs. Wilson. (Libby trial testimony)

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