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Lewis Libby Jr., who is the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, offered a detailed outline for Mr. Libby's likely defense to charges that he lied about his role in exposing the identity of a C.I.A. operative. In papers filed in federal court, the lawyers strongly suggested they would argue that if Mr. Libby's statements to investigators were false, it was a case of innocent confusion or faulty memory because of his preoccupation with weightier national security matters at the time. Mr. Libby was indicted on five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice last October in what a special prosecutor had charged was his willful misleading of investigators about his role in the exposure of Valerie Wilson's connection to the Central Intelligence Agency.