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To: Enchante
If the judge and the prosecutor actually cared about the FACTS they would support a broad presentation of the defense

Well, we know prosecutor doesn't care about the FACTS, or there would be no "investigation" to begin with... his career is in shambles, several of his recent Chicago cases ended less than in stellar fashion, most of the time he beat his accused into plea bargain by throwing "obstruction" and "perjury" charges - his MO, in absence of real case (so is Spitzer's) - he needs this conviction, or he's done.

In any case, if some people on the jury have any brains, they would see today from Woodward and Novak and others :

That WH didn't have any involvement with so-called "leak"
That Armitage who actually "leaked" it to Novak is not indicted
That multiple reporters testify that, given the chance to really leak information and "out" Valerie "the spy" Plame, Libby didn't take the opportunity (some "conspiracy"!)
That nobody considered information about Valerie Plame very secret
That Matt Cooper had to call Libby to casually "confirm" the info he got from someone else (yet Libby is still "classified" as a "source" of information)
That the entire Wilson-Plame "punishment" scenario has been thoroughly impeached by defense
That the only count that has not been impeached yet by the defense - Russert's contradiction - is being fought tooth and nail by the prosecution...

DC venue and jury is and has been the only reason Fitz went that far with this travesty. He ain't even cutting it in Chicago no mo'.

So, we'll see if DC juries have brains and willing to set aside their political loyalties, or they'll be joined together forever in the same breath as LA's OJ jury... It's their call... I don't see any "jury book" money or celebrity coming for them in case of conviction - the evidence is sooo against that, and media while "getting" a Bush/Cheney VIP, being caught in prosecutorial entrapment, didn't really get what they really wanted and in process came out smelling like a wet rat in all of this.

Armitage, Grossman, Comey, Eckenrode, Harlow, few others are "outed" from their government careers with spots on their records, some others let it be unmasked which political sides they're on... never good for someone posing as non-political career professional.

110 posted on 02/12/2007 4:13:02 PM PST by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: CutePuppy
"I don't see any "jury book" money or celebrity coming for them in case of conviction"

Probably right, but they may not know that, so it could still operate as a motivation for some/all of a DC jury. With all the Putzer, er, Pulitzer prize winners traipsing through the courtroom the jurors must feel as though they're at the center of the universe for this trial. Only a conviction would allow the jurors to dream of fame and riches -- they know that if they acquit or end up with a hung jury they will want to slink out of town in the middle of the night and hide out from all the angry DC liberals and DBM a-holes.
115 posted on 02/12/2007 6:06:01 PM PST by Enchante (Chamberlain Democrats embraced by terrorists and America-haters worldwide!!)
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