FGS, does this guy not know that Victoria WROTE the law?
I doubt it
Appaarently not. Pretty hilarious, if you ask me.
I'll take Toensing over whoever wrote that any day.
Right .. he's quibbling with the law she helped write, and avoiding the backbone of her article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601705.html
There's a reason why responsible prosecutors don't bring perjury cases on mere "he said, he said" evidence. Without an underlying crime or tangible evidence of obstruction (think Martha Stewart trying to destroy phone logs), the trial becomes a mishmash of faulty memories in which witnesses can seem as guilty as the defendant.
Any prosecutor knows that memories differ, even vividly, and each party can be convinced that his or her version is the truthful one.
If we accept Fitzgerald's low threshold for bringing a criminal case, then why stop at Libby? This investigation has enough questionable motives and shadowy half-truths and flawed recollections to fill a court docket for months. So here are my own personal bills of indictment:
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And I still go back to the original referral letter .. Tenet. Why have we not been able to learn what that says?
Would the purpose of the law designed to protect our agents operating overseas be served by distinguishing between the two scenarios? If so, then Ms. Toensing, who claims to have assisted the Senate Intelligence Committee in drafting the law, did a very lousy job.