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Lynne Cheney: Support 'Scooter' Libby

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Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, said she thinks it's odd that her husband's former chief of staff is the only person being tried in the CIA leak case.

"It seems bizarre to me," Mrs. Cheney said.

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is accused of lying to investigators about his conversations with reporters regarding former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, the outed CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Plame and Wilson have sued Libby and other Bush administration officials, accusing them of plotting to leak Plame's identity as retribution for Wilson's criticism of prewar intelligence on Iraq.

She said Libby's legal problems had not changed her or the vice president's admiration for him.

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  "The legal problems are there," she said. "I don't want to comment on anything in specific because there is a trial coming up, but Scooter is a fine man, and we continue to support him and his wonderful family. He has a terrific wife, two great kids."

© 2006 Associated Press.

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