Cheney could testify against former chief of staff

COULD US Vice-President Dick Cheney be a star prosecution witness in the perjury trial of his former chief of staff?

Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald suggested in a court filing on Wednesday that Cheney would be a logical witness for the prosecution because the vice president could authenticate notes he jotted on a copy of a New York Times opinion column by a critic of the US-led war in Iraq.

Fitzgerald said Cheney’s “state of mind” is “directly relevant” to whether Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, the vice president’s former top aide, lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury about how Libby learned CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity and what he later told reporters.