WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will not testify in the perjury trial of his former aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Libby's lawyer said on Tuesday.

Cheney had been expected to testify on behalf of his former chief of staff, who is charged with lying to investigators, as they sought to determine who leaked the identity of a CIA analyst to reporters in 2003 after her husband criticized the Iraq war.

"We have released the vice president as a potential witness," attorney Theodore Wells told Judge Reggie Walton.

Libby's lawyers say the former aide did not lie to the FBI and a grand jury, but simply did not accurately remember conversations he may have had about CIA agent Valerie Plame because he was preoccupied with national-security matters.

Libby will not testify on his own behalf, his lawyers said.

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