Jeffrey Schneider, Vice President of Communications for ABC News, denied a claim from the conservative Drudge Report that any reporter had called the White House to say that Dick Cheney's chief of staff "Scooter" Libby had been indicted, RAW STORY can report.
"Absolutely not true," Schneider said from his cell phone Tuesday evening.
"We have no such reporting," he added.
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Drudge said that an ABC News reporter claimed to the White House that it had double sourced "how an indictment against vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis Libby was set."
Among those involved in the CIA leak investigation, Libby appears to be in the most legal jeopardy.
Drudge quickly moved the story down on his site from the lead position. His piece follows.
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ABCNEWS TELLS WHITE HOUSE OF 'INDICTMENT'
Tue Oct 25 2005 19:08:02 ET
"We have double sourced that the vice president's chief of staff has been indicted," a reporter for ABCNEWS claimed to a White House press spokesman this afternoon.
The White House refused to comment on the claim. The network said they didn't need comment, they were preparing to run with the development on this evening's network news broadcast, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
ABCNEWS claimed to the White House that it had double sourced how an indictment against vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis Libby was set.
A senior White House source quickly determined ABC was bluffing; the report did not run on the East coast feed of the program.
