On July 7, 2003, vice presidential Chief of Staff Scooter “Libby had lunch with [White House Press Secretary Ari] Fleischer…He told Fleischer that [Vice President Dick] Cheney hadn’t sent [former Ambassador Joe] Wilson to Niger. ‘He was sent by his wife,’ Libby said, according to Fleischer’s subsequent testimony to a grand jury. ‘She works in …the Counterproliferation area of the CIA.’ …Cheney’s chief of staff appeared to recognize the information he was sharing with Fleischer was significant–and classified.”
– Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Pages 258-259