WASHINGTON – Senior White House official I. Lewis Libby was indicted today on
obstruction of justice, false statement and perjury charges for allegedly lying about how and when in
2003 he learned and subsequently disclosed to reporters then-classified information concerning the
employment of Valerie Wilson by the Central Intelligence Agency. Libby was charged with one count
of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements in a five-count
indictment returned today by a federal grand jury as its term expired, announced Justice Department
Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

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