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Verdict in Libby Trial in....reading at noon. (Guilty On 4 of 5 Charges)
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Posted on 03/06/2007 8:34:59 AM PST by Dog

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To: CharlesWayneCT
'm sure other things he is saying could be helpful on appeal, but the bit about wondering where Rove was came straight from the Well's defense.

Well, the prosecution would certainly argue that in opposing an appeal, but I think the defense would be more likely to link the "where's Rove?" question to the prosecution's closing argument.

1,141 posted on 03/06/2007 11:58:31 AM PST by PhatHead
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To: oceanview
"the factual error is right there in the referral - she wasn't undercover. once that was established, the case was over."

Yet Fitz today (outside the courtroom) stated that in the referral her position was "classified."

Is Fitz lying? Did he lie in his closing argument?

Please walk me through the establishing of the fact that she was not undercover.

1,142 posted on 03/06/2007 11:58:43 AM PST by cookcounty (How odd. Lee Hamilton now employed by Sandy Berger: stonebridge-international.com)
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To: roses of sharon
Fitz had ZERO evidence to back up any lying, unlike with Stewart who tampered with phone logs.

It was a he said she said, it was faulty, confused, and erred memories of everyone who testified.


Unfortunately for Libby, Fitzgerald had enough evidence to get a jury to convict Libby on 4 of 5 counts. And it's harder for a jury to see this as a he said, she said when she (the reporters and other prosecution witnesses) testify, but he (Libby) doesn't. She said and he didn't. I think the defense made a big mistake not putting Libby on the stand.

Fitz had discretion, like all Pros, he did not use it because this was political, and he knew he could get a political jury in DC.

Perjury is perjury. If DC juries are so political, did Libby's lawyers even try to get the case moved outside of the Beltway? If not, why not? I honestly don't know the answer to that question - or if they even could have asked in a federal case.
1,143 posted on 03/06/2007 11:59:55 AM PST by conservative in nyc
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To: Txsleuth
Following the trial, juror Denis Collins, a former Washington Post writer, told reporters there was a "tremendous amount of sympathy" for Libby and that most of the jury thought, "He was the fall guy."

Collins described, "The belief of the jury was that he was tasked by the Vice President to go and talk with reporters."

1,144 posted on 03/06/2007 12:00:39 PM PST by kcvl
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To: prairiebreeze
have little patience for bald faced liars, that's true.

So you've been looking in that mirror again.

1,145 posted on 03/06/2007 12:00:48 PM PST by Dave S
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To: Txsleuth

"Schumer PUSHED to have the investigation."

Schumer acting like a Democrat.


1,146 posted on 03/06/2007 12:00:52 PM PST by popdonnelly ([Democrats] are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
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To: cookcounty

covert and classified are two totally separate things. Fitz always played fast and loose with this, even in the charging documents. He knows she is not covert - everything at CIA is "classified", the guy who cleans the toilets there is "classified".

Fitz just uses this term to confuse the sheeple, they hear the word "classified" and they think its some issue of grave national security. all of the reporters in this case knew she worked for CIA, they heard it from Wilson, how "secure" was that information?


1,147 posted on 03/06/2007 12:03:37 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Dave S

Nah, just your posts.


1,148 posted on 03/06/2007 12:06:05 PM PST by prairiebreeze (I am PRO-VICTORY!!)
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To: cookcounty

what "fact"? she wasn't covert, that's the fact. is she was covert, someone would have been charged with revealing that. Fitz can't provide evidence that she was covert, because she wasn't. He didn't need to anyway, the GJ was simply a perjury trap for Rove and Libby, it had nothing to do with determining whether a "covert" agent was outed.


1,149 posted on 03/06/2007 12:06:20 PM PST by oceanview
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To: popdonnelly
"On the tape, Armitage told Woodward that that Wilson was calling around, telling people that his CIA wife, Plame, had sent Wilson to Niger."

That's the part NOBODY engages with. Wilson's outing of his own wife. Was Administration outsider Armitage lying about this? At the first established "Outing" of this information (Armitage-->Novak), the testimony is about multiple previous "outings".

1,150 posted on 03/06/2007 12:06:47 PM PST by cookcounty (How odd. Lee Hamilton now employed by Sandy Berger: stonebridge-international.com)
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To: prairiebreeze

does anyone think that if a liberal columnist published the flame name, would it have gone any farther than the column?


1,151 posted on 03/06/2007 12:07:27 PM PST by machogirl
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To: Peach
His wife must be a wreck. Prayers for both of them.

Scooter would do better to get a decent lawyer.

From the very get-go at the opening remarks, his team tried to portray Scooter as the scape goat for the eeeeevil Bush-Rove-Cheney gang.

Bad tactic then...and they never recovered.

I was so pissed when I heard that, I wanted to convict him...well, not really, but it did piss me off.

1,152 posted on 03/06/2007 12:07:37 PM PST by evad
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To: cookcounty

Yet Fitz today (outside the courtroom) stated that in the referral her position was "classified."

There's a legal difference between "classified" and "covert". A "covert agent" is defined tightly by a Federal criminal statute. A CIA employee's status can be classified, even though that employee still does not fit the definition of "covert agent".


1,153 posted on 03/06/2007 12:07:45 PM PST by popdonnelly ([Democrats] are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
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To: popdonnelly

It did happen to the Oklahoma City bombing case. It's hard to know what's truly human error and what is a result of someone deliberately doing something wrong.

Although I have my suspicions in the Libby case.


1,154 posted on 03/06/2007 12:08:23 PM PST by saveliberty (Liberalism (called Middle of the Road by MSM) = You are free to do as you are told.)
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To: cookcounty
Please walk me through the establishing of the fact that she was not undercover.

Undercover agents don't put CIA parking permits on their cars.

1,155 posted on 03/06/2007 12:09:35 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: cookcounty

People also need to engage with the fact that various reporters knew that Wilson had been blabbing around Washington, D.C.


1,156 posted on 03/06/2007 12:09:59 PM PST by popdonnelly ([Democrats] are jubilant at our disasters and are cast down when the rebels are defeated -Sept. 1862)
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To: blinachka

I wonder, what was the substance of the false statements? How did the prosecution make the case that Libby purposely lied as opposed to simply not remembering correctly?


1,157 posted on 03/06/2007 12:11:53 PM PST by TheDon (The DemocRAT party is the party of TREASON! Overthrow the terrorist's congress!)
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To: oceanview

I was just trying to get at this confusion about "classified" and "covert," like 97% of the public, I'm not entirely clear on what the term "classified" means. Is leaking a "classified" identity illegal? Leaking "classified" documents?


1,158 posted on 03/06/2007 12:13:01 PM PST by cookcounty (How odd. Lee Hamilton now employed by Sandy Berger: stonebridge-international.com)
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To: Clump

Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham: "Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes . . . now THAT would have been a tragedy."

1,159 posted on 03/06/2007 12:13:37 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Dog

Here we are again - beating our chests and beating up each other - there is nothing so defeating as defeat.

Impatient for George Bush to pardon the border guards and Scooter............January 2009?

This is G*dawful.

I just want one small victory - for Pete's sake!


1,160 posted on 03/06/2007 12:15:47 PM PST by sodpoodle (Official Thread Nanny)
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