A federal judge has scheduled the trial of Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby to begin in January of next year–just after the November mid-term elections. He faces five counts of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice in the outting of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Meanwhile new developments in the case have come to light because of recent court filings. According to the Washington Post, court records show that Libby denied to a grand jury that he ever mentioned Plame or her CIA job to then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer or then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller. The records also suggest that Libby did not disclose to investigators that he first spoke to Miller about Plame in June 2003, and that prosecutors learned of the nature of the conversation only when Miller finally testified late in the fall of 2005.