Washington, D.C. ? The prosecutor took a more aggressive stance and jury selection slowed so much in the CIA leak trial Thursday that the judge postponed opening statements until Tuesday.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald successfully objected to the way defense attorneys for former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby were questioning prospective jurors. The lawyers had been asking for their opinions of Bush administration officials and whether the officials lied to push the nation into the Iraq war.

“The jury will not be asked to render a verdict on the war or what they think of the war,” Fitzgerald said.

Fitzgerald also changed his own questioning to put Libby’s attorneys, Theodore Wells and William Jeffress, more on the defensive.