SPB News for Friday.

Interrogator: Invasion Surprised Saddam — Tells 60 Minutes Former Dictator Bragged About Eluding Capture — (CBS) Saddam Hussein initially didn't think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen.

2 notable perjury cases — High-profile cases involving public officials and the truth include: — Lewis (Scooter) Libby — Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff was convicted of perjury in March for lying to investigators trying to find who leaked the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff lied about their relationship last summer at a police whistle-blower trial that has cost the cash-strapped city more than $9 million, according to records obtained by the Free Press.

The false testimony potentially exposes them to felony perjury charges, legal experts say.

Kilpatrick and chief of staff Christine Beatty denied during testimony in August that they had a sexual relationship. But the records, a series of text messages, show them engaged in romantic banter as well as planning and recounting sexual liaisons.

The messages are also at odds with the pair's trial testimony that they did not fire Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown in 2003, an ouster that led him to sue. The text messages show Beatty recalling the "decision that we made to fire Gary Brown."

The newspaper examined nearly 14,000 text messages on Beatty's city-issued pager. The exchanges, which the Free Press obtained after the trial, cover two months each in 2002 and 2003.

Foreign Office told to give up WMD draft An early draft of the government's discredited Iraq weapons dossier written by John Williams, a former journalist and head of the Foreign Office news department, must be released, the Information Tribunal ordered yesterday. The government has said the dossier was entirely the work of the intelligence agencies. Williams' role in the affair was not disclosed to the Hutton inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of David Kelly, the government weapons expert who questioned the way the dossier was drawn up.

ConocoPhillips' 4Q Net Up 37% Amid Record Prices --ConocoPhillips 4Q earnings $4.37B vs year-ago $3.2B ConocoPhillips's fourth-quarter net income rose 37% amid record oil prices, better-than-expected refining margins and higher profits from its investment in Lukoil Holdings. ConocoPhillips was the first major U.S. major oil company to report fourth-quarter earnings, setting the stage for a possible strong quarter for Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., which both report on Feb. 1.