And then Libby lied about it!!!
From NY Times
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff told prosecutors that Cheney had informed him "in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion" in mid-June 2003 about the identity of the CIA officer at the heart of the leak case, according to a formerly secret legal opinion, portions of which were made public on Friday.
Libby is not a good liar.
Was Cheney questioned???
More from NY Times
The newly released pages were part of a legal opinion written in February 2005 by Judge David S. Tatel of the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. His opinion disclosed that the former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., acknowledged to prosecutors that he had heard directly from Cheney about the CIA officer, Valerie Wilson, more than a month before her identity was first publicly disclosed on July 14, 2003, by a newspaper columnist.
"Nevertheless," Tatel wrote, "Libby maintains that he was learning about Wilson's wife's identity for the first time when he spoke with NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert on July 10 or 11."
Russert denied Libby's account.
No wonder Libby was indicted. He can't keep the story straight at all.