Posted on 10/28/2005 1:46:49 PM PDT by frankjr
LINK: Statement from Libby's Lawyer
I know -- same old media -- not good for much. I would still like to know what an intellectual property rights attorney is all about.
You know, I heard on the Hannity show today about this Wilson guy not signing a confidentialty agreement. I am thinking to myself, what?????, and in the position he is in. Why not? Most corporations ask employees or contractors, which ever the case, to sign one, whether they are involved in highly sensitive areas, documents, etc. or not.
It simply does not make sense that dealing with highly sensitive issues as Mr. Wilson is telling the world he was involvedin; a signed confidentiality agreement would not be high on the priority list. I'll bet all government agencies do it.
And this should be a red flag to anyone wondering who to point the finger at. I would surely point the finger at Wilson and his wife and who else alledgely plotted this obvious set up to probably get Bush.
And no icing on top of Wilson's yellowcake.
Mainly patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
LOL!!!!!!!
I read the Indictment {all 22 pages} and then went to the US Code of jusitce to see what Title 18 Section 793 {and all of the other litte subsections, 100, 1053 etc} were all about.
This section of law was written to be able to prevent {or later prosecute} any person from giving military secrets about ships, shipyards, and other very specific military, classfied secrets to anyone not entitled to receive them.
Since valerie was not covert, fitzzy could not use the law that was charged in the original investigation {if there was no crime, there was no cover up} so he dug around and found another nebulous law, which could be strecthed into an indictment.
This case is so weak that if a person's entire life were not in chaos, it would be funny. Now Libby is out of the WH, but he will have to spend millions of dollars and years of his life, disproving some spurious charges, about whether it was raining on July 23, 2003 when he looked out his window, and thought about valerie and joe.
After two years, a mid level staffer gets indicted, using a law about the secrecy of shipyards. All of the other charges, perjury, obstruction etc. all flow from this statute}. What a msierable system, that allows a prosecuter, the power over anyone, without any check or balance. That is the real danger of a "special prosecuter" for this one investigation, he has no boss. He can't be fired, no matter how badly he is screwing up, The Attorney General, the Congress, The President, no one can stop him, until he feels like quitting. Too much power, no oversight {except the eagle eyes of the press}.
"Hugh," "Series," and "Loose" .... wonder what kind of strategery the lawyer will use.
They asked for a Harley and all they got was a Scooter.
Well. Perhaps it was a double secret mission. Or perhaps it was a a "mission," you know, but not "really" official. Maybe that's *how* secret it was.
I mean, wiling away the hours drinking mint tea with African despots and asking a few brainy questions is, you know, right up there will infilitrating an Iranian nuclear weapons laboratory.
That's just how brainy this little liberal tale really is. And serious. Oh. It's deathly serious.
An intellectual property attorney defends the violation of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. They represent clients like the RIAA, authors, media (newspapers, radio, TV, websites), and musicians, and entertainers.
Too much power, no oversight {except the eagle eyes of the press}.
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Well, I for one plan to keep an eye on this matter. Perhaps the non-mainstream media (e.g., Freepers, bloggers, et al.) can help get justice for Mr. Libby. After all, it was the little guys who outed CBS and Dan Rathernot over those forged documents.
And one more thing: I don't know a whole lot about Attorney Tate other than his firm and Martindale bios as posted here, but I know his firm is a prestigious heavy hitter. Sounds to me like Attorney Libby has chosen his counsel well. At least, he didn't get the OJ Simpson dream team. (Ugh)
The way I read it, USS, if she was overseas on assignment at any time during the last 5 years she might fall within the statute definition as "covert". Looks to me like they wanted the law as inclusive as possible
And it's quibbling, an area in which they thrive.
This has the potential to go very badly for Libby.
They would be involved with lawsuits involving copyright and trademark infringement cases. Or other type of artistic works such as books, movies, paintings, and even software creation.
An intellectual property attorney defends the violation of patents, trademarks, and copyrights. They represent clients like the RIAA, authors, media (newspapers, radio, TV, websites), and musicians, and entertainers.
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And I might add...inventors, artists, architects and other professionals, corporations (manufacturers for example), tech companies...
For the truly bored, {yet want to be informed} the following url will take you to the US Code, that will show the detail of the law that fittzy is using:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000793----000-.html
From Page 5 of the indictment
"On or about June 12, 2003, LIBBY was advised by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson’s wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Division. LIBBY understood that the Vice President had learned this information from the CIA."
CPD is in the Directorate of Operations. Would this make her an operative? Are all operatives covert? I don't know, just asking.
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