I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby told a grand jury that he largely “could not recall” several details of conversations he had with Vice President Cheney and others regarding Joseph C. Wilson IV, the war critic who accused the administration of twisting intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq, according to audiotapes played in court this afternoon.

Carefully and deliberately testifying in 2004 as part of the probe that eventually led to criminal charges against him, Libby, who was then Cheney’s chief of staff, said he did remember his boss telling him in June 2003 that former ambassador Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA. But Cheney said it in “sort of an offhand manner, as a curiosity,” Libby said.

The vice president used a tone unlike his regular voice, Libby said, which “was much more matter of fact and straight.”

The audiotapes of Libby’s own words are being played to a jury that is weighing whether he is guilty of lying to investigators probing the leak of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity to the media.
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